title: Genetic characterization of rabies viruses isolated from frugivorous bat (Artibeus spp.) in Brazil.
abstract: In Latin America, rabies cases related to frugivorous bats have been reported since 1930's. Recently, two viruses isolated from Artibeus lituratus were proved to be vampire bat variants by monoclonal antibodies panels [2], but their genetic information is not well known. In this report, four rabies viruses were isolated from frugivorous bats (Artibeus spp.) in Brazil and their nucleoprotein gene sequences were determined. These isolates were found to be genotype 1 of lyssavirus and showed the maximum nucleotide sequence homology of 97.6-99.4% with vampire bat-related viruses in Brazil [6]. These results indicate that the Brazilian frugivorous bat rabies viruses in this study are closely related to vampire bat-related viruses that play a main role in rabies virus transmission to livestock in Brazil.
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine and Animal Health, Nihon University School of Veterinary Medicine, Nihon University, Kanagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Youko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shoji
authors.forename: Yuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: Go
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Takuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Itou
authors.forename: Yasuo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Miura
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mikami
authors.forename: Elenice M S
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Cunha
authors.forename: Samir I
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Samara
authors.forename: Adlorata A B
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Carvalho
authors.forename: Darci P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Nocitti
authors.forename: Fumio H
authors.initials: FH
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: Ichiro
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kurane
authors.forename: Takeo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sakai
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001921:Brain / Q000821:virology; D001938:Brazil; D002685:Chiroptera / Q000821:virology*; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D017931:DNA Primers; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009698:Nucleoproteins / Q000235:genetics; D010802:Phylogeny; D011820:Rabies virus / Q000235:genetics*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017385:Sequence Homology
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D009698:Nucleoproteins