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. 2006 Mar;12(3):504-6.
doi: 10.3201/eid1203.051306.

Lagos bat virus, South Africa

Wanda Markotter  1 , Jenny Randles, Charles E Rupprecht, Claude T Sabeta, Peter J Taylor, Alex I Wandeler, Louis H Nel
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Lagos bat virus, South Africa

Wanda Markotter et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 Mar.

Abstract

Three more isolates of Lagos bat virus were recently recovered from fruit bats in South Africa after an apparent absence of this virus for 13 years. The sporadic occurrence of cases is likely due to inadequate surveillance programs for lyssavirus infections among bat populations in Africa.

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A neighbor-joining tree comparing 457 nucleotides of the nucleoprotein-encoding genes of the new Lagos bat isolations made in South Africa (bat 2003 [DQ201178], 2004 [DQ201179], and 2005 [DQ201180]) with representative sequences of the 7 genotypes of lyssaviruses obtained from GenBank. GenBank accession numbers are indicated on the figure. The bootstrap values were determined with 1,000 replicates.
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