Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2011)

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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1712.110811
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 12
pp. 2346 – 2349

Abstract

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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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