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Title

Bat Rabies, Texas, 1996–2000

Authors

Rodney E. Rohde, Texas State University-San Marcos, Clinical Laboratory Science, San Marcos, Texas, USA
Bonny C. Mayes, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas, USA
Jean S. Smith, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Susan U. Neill, Texas Department of Health Bureau of Laboratories, Austin, Texas, USA

Document Type

Article

Comments

Originally Published in CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention), Emerging Infectious Diseases [serial online] Vol. 10, no. 5, May 2004.

Abstract

Bats submitted to the Texas Department of Health (1996–2000) were speciated and tested for rabies virus antigen by direct immunofluorescence microscopy. Antigenic analysis of rabies virus–positive specimens was performed with monoclonal antibodies against the nucleoprotein of the virus; atypical or unexpected results were confirmed by genetic analysis of nucleoprotein sequence.

Recommended Citation

Rohde, Rodney E.; Mayes, Bonny C.; Smith, Jean S.; and Neill, Susan U., "Bat Rabies, Texas, 1996–2000" (2004). Faculty Publications-Clinical Laboratory Science Program. Paper 6.
http://ecommons.txstate.edu/clsfacp/6