Emerging Infectious Diseases (Apr 2012)

Ikoma Lyssavirus, Highly Divergent Novel Lyssavirus in an African Civet

  • Denise A. Marston,
  • Daniel L. Horton,
  • Chanasa Ngeleja,
  • Katie Hampson,
  • Lorraine M. McElhinney,
  • Ashley C. Banyard,
  • Daniel Haydon,
  • Sarah Cleaveland,
  • Charles E. Rupprecht,
  • Machunde Bigambo,
  • Anthony R. Fooks,
  • Tiziana Lembo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1804.111553
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18, no. 4
pp. 664 – 667

Abstract

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Evidence in support of a novel lyssavirus was obtained from brain samples of an African civet in Tanzania. Results of phylogenetic analysis of nucleoprotein gene sequences from representative Lyssavirus species and this novel lyssavirus provided strong empirical evidence that this is a new lyssavirus species, designated Ikoma lyssavirus.

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