Journal
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION
Volume 139, Issue 4, Pages 629-635Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268810001263
Keywords
Arctic-like virus; rabies outbreak; rabies virus; raccoon dog
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- Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2005DIB4J048]
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An outbreak of rabies affected domestic raccoon dogs on an animal farm in Inner Mongolia, China in 2007. A study was conducted to characterize the aetiological agent and clarify the origin of the rabies virus. Brain tissues were obtained from five rabid raccoon dogs. Viral nucleoprotein antigen was detected in the brain tissues and five rabies viruses were isolated from these rabid animals. Phylogenetic analysis of the N and G gene sequences showed that these isolates were closely related to Arctic-like rabies viruses isolated from the far-eastern region of Russia and South Korea, but distinct from the rabies viruses that are widely distributed in endemic areas in China. Epidemiological data suggested that the likely source of infection was from one wild raccoon dog that was captured and placed in the same type of pen used for domestic raccoon dogs.
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