Volume 20, Number 5—May 2014
Research
Molecular Characterization of Cryptically Circulating Rabies Virus from Ferret Badgers, Taiwan
Table 3
Genetic distances between Taiwan isolates and other rabies virus lineages or groups in different genomic regions*
Rabies virus group† | Gene |
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N | P | M | G | L | Genome | |
Asia | ||||||
CNFB | 0.115 | 0.172 | 0.105 | 0.129 | 0.130 | 0.134 |
China I‡ | 0.104 | 0.157 | 0.107 | 0.133 | 0.123 | 0.127 |
China II | 0.130 | 0.186 | 0.132 | 0.172 | 0.142 | 0.152 |
Southeast Asia |
0.140 |
0.189 |
0.125 |
0.169 |
0.147 |
0.155 |
Cosmopolitan | 0.161 | 0.216 | 0.173 | 0.209 | 0.177 | 0.192 |
India | 0.152 | 0.229 | 0.183 | 0.211 | 0.175 | 0.191 |
Outgroup | 0.200 | 0.284 | 0.212 | 0.237 | 0.209 | 0.232 |
*CNFB, Chinese ferret badgers; outgroup, rabies virus derived from bat and raccoon.
†Groups of rabies virus are based on the work of Bourhy et al. (17).
‡In this analysis, China I does not include CNFB.
1Joint senior authors who contributed equally to this article.