Emergence of Arctic-like rabies lineage in India

Emerg Infect Dis. 2007 Jan;13(1):111-6. doi: 10.3201/eid1301.060702.

Abstract

A collection of 37 rabies-infected samples, 10 human saliva and 27 animal brain, were recovered during 2001-2004 from the cities of Bangalore and Hyderabad in southern India and from Kasauli, a mountainous region in Himachal Pradesh, northern India. Phylogenetic analysis of partial N gene nucleotide sequences of these 37 specimens and 1 archival specimen identified 2 groups, divided according to their geographic (north or south) origins. Comparison of selected Indian viruses with representative rabies viruses recovered worldwide showed a close association of all Indian isolates with the circumpolar Arctic rabies lineage distributed throughout northern latitudes of North America and Europe and other viruses recovered from several Asian countries.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Animals
  • Arctic Regions
  • Cat Diseases / epidemiology
  • Cat Diseases / virology
  • Cats
  • Cattle
  • Cattle Diseases / epidemiology
  • Cattle Diseases / virology
  • Child
  • Dog Diseases / epidemiology
  • Dog Diseases / virology
  • Dogs
  • Female
  • Humans
  • India / epidemiology
  • Male
  • Nucleocapsid Proteins / genetics
  • Phylogeny
  • Rabies / epidemiology*
  • Rabies / veterinary
  • Rabies / virology*
  • Rabies virus / genetics*
  • Rabies virus / isolation & purification*
  • Saliva / virology

Substances

  • Nucleocapsid Proteins
  • nucleocapsid protein, Rabies virus