Molecular epidemiology of rabies virus in Mongolia, 2005-2008.
The objective of this study was to determine the genetic diversity of rabies virus (RABV) in Mongolia based on the nucleotide sequences of viral N gene. A total of 24 rabies-positive samples from seven different domestic and wild animal species collected in western and central Mongolia between 2005 and 2008 were examined for their N gene sequences. The results showed that the endemic Mongolian RABVs could be divided into two different groups closely related to the Steppe-type and Arctic-like viruses isolated in Russia.
Boldbaatar
Bazartseren
B
School of Veterinary Medicine, Nihon University, Kanagawa 252-8510, Japan.
Inoue
Satoshi
S
Tuya
Nasan
N
Dulam
Purevtseren
P
Batchuluun
Damdinjav
D
Sugiura
Naoko
N
Okutani
Akiko
A
Kaku
Yoshihiro
Y
Noguchi
Akira
A
Kotaki
Akira
A
Yamada
Akio
A
D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic / Q000821:virology; D000835:Animals, Wild / Q000821:virology; D017720:Molecular Epidemiology / Q000379:methods; D008986:Mongolia / Q000453:epidemiology; D019590:Nucleocapsid Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D010802:Phylogeny; D011818:Rabies / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology; D011820:Rabies virus / Q000235:genetics*; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D016415:Sequence Alignment
D019590:Nucleocapsid Proteins; C099601:nucleocapsid protein, Rabies virus