Rabies virus maintained by dogs in humans and terrestrial wildlife, Ceará State, Brazil.
Rabies viruses circulating in Ceará, Brazil, were identified by molecular analysis to be related to variants maintained by dogs, bats, and other wildlife. Most of these viruses are associated with human rabies cases. We document the emergence of a rabies virus variant responsible for an independent epidemic cycle in the crab-eating fox (Cerdocyon thous).
Favoretto
Silvana R
SR
Instituto Pasteur de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. srfavoretto@ig.com.br
de Mattos
Cecília C
CC
de Morais
Nélio B
NB
Carrieri
Maria Luíza
ML
Rolim
Benedito N
BN
Silva
Lucia M
LM
Rupprecht
Charles E
CE
Durigon
Edison L
EL
de Mattos
Carlos A
CA
D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild; D000940:Antigenic Variation / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004197:Disease Reservoirs / Q000821:virology*; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000821:virology*; D004285:Dogs; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009698:Nucleoproteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D011818:Rabies / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology*; D011820:Rabies virus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
D009698:Nucleoproteins; D012367:RNA, Viral