Novel sylvatic rabies virus variant in endangered golden palm civet, Sri Lanka.

Takashi Matsumoto, Kamruddin Ahmed, Omala Wimalaratne, Susilakanthi Nanayakkara, Devika Perera, Dushantha Karunanayake, Akira Nishizono

Oita University, Yufu, Japan.

Emerging infectious diseases 2011 Dec

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Information is scarce about sylvatic rabies virus in Asia and about rabies in palm civets. We report a novel sylvatic rabies virus variant detected in a golden palm civet in Sri Lanka. Evolutionary analysis suggests the virus diverged from canine rabies viruses in Sri Lanka in ≈1933 (range 1886-1963).

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Takashi Matsumoto, Kamruddin Ahmed, Omala Wimalaratne, Susilakanthi Nanayakkara, Devika Perera, Dushantha Karunanayake, Akira Nishizono. Novel sylvatic rabies virus variant in endangered golden palm civet, Sri Lanka. Emerging infectious diseases. 2011 Dec;17(12):2346-9