Volume 9, Number 12—December 2003
Dispatch
Novel Lyssaviruses Isolated from Bats in Russia
Table
Antigenic patterns of new bat virus isolates compared to other lyssaviruses by a panel of N-MAbsa
Virus | N-MAbs |
|||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3-1 | 8-2 | 11-1 | 15-2 | 22-3 | 23-4 | 24-1 | 24-10 | 52-1 | 52-2 | 61-1 | 62-4 | 71-2 | 97-3 | 97-11 | 141-1 | 143-1 | 146-3 | 164-2 | 502-2 | 422-5 | ||
Irkut virus |
+ |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
o |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
+ |
- |
|
WCBV |
- |
+ |
- |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
+ |
- |
|
Lagos bat virus (variant 1)b |
- |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
+ |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
+ |
+ |
|
Lagos bat virus (variant 2) b |
- |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
- |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
+ |
+ |
|
Mokolab |
- |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
+ |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
|
Duvenhage virusb |
- |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
+ |
+ |
|
EBLV-1b |
+ |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
+ |
- |
- |
+ |
+ |
- |
|
EBLV-2b |
+ |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
- |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
- |
- |
+ |
- |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
- |
+ |
- |
|
Aravan virus |
- |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
- |
|
Khujand virus |
o |
- |
- |
- |
+ |
+ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
- |
|
Rabies, Red fox (West Europe) b |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
- |
|
Rabies, Red fox (Caucasus) |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
o |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
- |
|
Rabies, CVS | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | - |
aN-MAbs, antinucleocapsid monoclonal antibodies; –, absence of reaction; zero, reduced reaction with 10x less diluted antibody; +, positive reaction; WCBV, West Caucasian bat virus; .EBLV, European bat lyssavirus.
bPatterns obtained from Smith (11).
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