Volume 20, Number 5—May 2014
Research
Molecular Characterization of Cryptically Circulating Rabies Virus from Ferret Badgers, Taiwan
Table 2
Genomic organization and nucleotide lengths of terminal and intergenic regions and viral genes of rabies virus from Taiwan and other lineages from Asia*
Isolate | 3′-UTR | Gene, nucleotide length |
5′-UTR | Genome size | ||||||||
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N | N–P | P | P–M | M | M–G | G | G–L | L | ||||
TWFB | 70 | 1,353 | 91 | 894 | 86 | 609 | 212 | 1,575 | 519 | 6,384 | 130 | 11,923 |
CNFB | 70 | 1,353 | 91 | 894 | 86 | 609 | 211 | 1,575 | 519 | 6,384 | 130–131 | 11,922–11,923 |
China I† | 70 | 1,353 | 90–91 | 894 | 87–88 | 609 | 211 | 1,575 | 519 | 6,384 | 130 | 11,923 |
China II† | 70 | 1,353 | 91 | 894 | 87 | 609 | 211 | 1,575 | 518–519 | 6,384 | 131 | 11,923–11,924 |
*UTR, untranslated region; TWFB, Taiwan ferret badgers; CNFB, Chinese ferret badgers.
†The definitions of China I and II are based on He et al. (16). China I does not include CNFB.
1Joint senior authors who contributed equally to this article.