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Novel lyssaviruses isolated from bats in Russia
Alexandr D Botvinkin1, Elena M Poleschuk, Ivan V Kuzmin
1Plague Control Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East, Irkutsk, Russia.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|January 15, 2004
Abstract:
Two new rabies-related viruses were discovered in Russia during 2002. Viruses were isolated from bats in Eastern Siberia near Baikal Lake and in the western Caucasus Mountains. After preliminary antigenic and genetic characterization, we found that both viruses should be considered as new putative lyssavirus genotypes.