The phylodynamics of the rabies virus in the Russian Federation.

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Andrei A Deviatkin, Alexander N Lukashev, Elena M Poleshchuk, Vladimir G Dedkov, Sergey E Tkachev, Gennadiy N Sidorov, Galina G Karganova, Irina V Galkina, Mikhail Yu Shchelkanov, German A Shipulin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Franz Josef Land; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0171855; https://doaj.org/article/22c8b747c24e491889a67c3a31129679

Near complete rabies virus N gene sequences (1,110 nt) were determined for 82 isolates obtained from different regions of Russia between 2008 and 2016. These sequences were analyzed together with 108 representative GenBank sequences from 1977-2016 using the Bayesian coalescent approach. The timing o...