Research Article

Development of Primer Pairs from Molecular Typing of Rabies Virus Variants Present in Mexico

Table 4

Comparison between different methods of rabies virus variants detection.

SampleHostFATAntigenic variantExternal RT-PCRInternal PCRSYBR GreenGenBank sequence
AC number (N gene)
DVBSdvbsdvbs

1Dog 0068+V1JQ037820
2Dog 647+V1JQ037819
3Dog 659+V1JQ037823
4Dog 748+V1JQ037821
5Dog 2293+V1JQ037824
6Dog 885+V1JQ037822
7Cow 658+V8JQ037825
8Cow 2688+V8JQ037826
9Bat nonhematophagous 757+AJQ037830
10Bat nonhematophagous 1594+V5JQ037829
11Bat nonhematophagous 1079+NoneJQ037831
12Vampire bat 3919+NoneJQ037827
13Vampire bat 110+AtypicalJQ037828
14Skunk 1369+V8JQ037818
1565EDOMEXDOG05NA
16543EDOMEXDOG05NA
17642EDOMEXDOG05NA
18223EDOMEXDOG05NA
191001EDOMEXDOG05NA
20455EDOMEXDOG05NA
21755EDOMEXDOG05NA
222187EDOMEXDOG05NA
23Negative controlNA

FAT: fluorescent antibody test; Varian antigenic test: V1, dog; V5, Tadarida brasiliensis; V8, skunk; V11, vampire bat; A, atypical; positive diagnosis. Capital letter: positive external RT-PCR; lowercased letter: positive internal PCR; italic letter: positive SYBR Green. Variants were represented in the following sense: D, dog; V, vampire; B, bat; and S, skunk. Sequences refer to NCBI accession number (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/).