Bat Rabies, Texas, 1996–2000

摘要

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