TY - JOUR AU - Matsumoto, Takashi AU - Ahmed, Kamruddin AU - Wimalaratne, Omala AU - Nanayakkara, Susilakanthi AU - Perera, Devika AU - Karunanayake, Dushantha AU - Nishizono, Akira T1 - Novel Sylvatic Rabies Virus Variant in Endangered Golden Palm Civet, Sri Lanka T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2011 VL - 17 IS - 12 SP - 2346 SN - 1080-6059 AB - 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). KW - zoonoses KW - viruses KW - rabies KW - Paradoxurus zeylonensis KW - palm civet KW - sylvatic KW - variant KW - Sri Lanka KW - molecular epidemiology DO - 10.3201/eid1712.110811 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/12/11-0811_article ER - End of Reference