Emergence of Arctic-like Rabies Lineage in India

Autor: Shampur Narayan Madhusudana, Susan A. Nadin-Davis, Alexander I. Wandeler, Joel P. V. Paul, Geoff Turner
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Emerging Infectious Diseases
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 111-111 (2007)
ISSN: 1080-6059
1080-6040
DOI: 10.3201/eid1301.060702
Popis: Progenitors of Arctic-like rabies viruses, which now circulate extensively in India, may have been responsible for the emergence of the Arctic rabies lineage.
A collection of 37 rabies-infected samples, 10 human saliva and 27 animal brain, were recovered during 2001–2004 from the cities of Bangalore and Hyderabad in southern India and from Kasauli, a mountainous region in Himachal Pradesh, northern India. Phylogenetic analysis of partial N gene nucleotide sequences of these 37 specimens and 1 archival specimen identified 2 groups, divided according to their geographic (north or south) origins. Comparison of selected Indian viruses with representative rabies viruses recovered worldwide showed a close association of all Indian isolates with the circumpolar Arctic rabies lineage distributed throughout northern latitudes of North America and Europe and other viruses recovered from several Asian countries.
Databáze: OpenAIRE