title: Lyssavirus surveillance in bats of southern China's Guangxi Province.
abstract: Although rabies virus is widely distributed in the world, and has been the subject of extensive investigations with the objective of its ultimate prevention, control, and management, there is much less knowledge of the characteristics, distribution, and infectivity of other lyssaviruses. Since bats are known animal vectors for all but one of the known lyssavirus genotypes, we have performed an extensive survey of bats in the Guangxi Province to provide information on lyssavirus distribution in southern China. The lyssavirus nucleoprotein gene was detected in brains of 2.86 % of 2,969 bats. Nucleotide sequence homologies among isolates were 86.9-99.6 %, but only 70.0-85.0 % for lyssaviruses in GenBank. These infected bats were detected from a wide area, essentially forming a band running from the south-west to the north-east of Guangxi, and it appears that infection by new lyssaviruses is widespread in this region.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresourses, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, Guangxi, China.
authors.forename: Zhuan-Ling
authors.initials: ZL
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Wei-Li
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.forename: Hai-Bo
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.forename: Xiang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: Qi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xiong
authors.forename: Nobuyuki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Minamoto
authors.forename: Ting Rong
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Luo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001921:Brain / Q000821:virology; D002681:China; D002685:Chiroptera / Q000821:virology*; D018114:Lyssavirus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009698:Nucleoproteins / Q000235:genetics; D010802:Phylogeny; D011159:Population Surveillance; D018353:Rhabdoviridae Infections / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology
chemical_list: D009698:Nucleoproteins