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rhabdovirus
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rhabdovirus

Any of a group of viruses responsible for rabies and vesicular stomatitis (an acute disease of cattle and horses, characterized by blisters in and about the mouth, that resembles foot-and-mouth disease). The bullet-shaped virus particle is encased in a fatty membrane and contains RNA.


rhabdovirus [¦rab·dō′vī·rəs]
(virology)
A group of ribonucleic acid-containing animal viruses, including rabies virus and certain infective agents of fish and insects.


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Because limited serologic cross-reactivity between lyssaviruses and other rhabdoviruses has been demonstrated (12), the WCBV seroprevalence we detected may have been caused by some other serologically related virus.
Results Evaluation of GreeneChip Performance The performance of the GreeneChip system was initially tested in GreeneChipVr hybridizations that used extracts of cultured cells infected with adenoviruses, alphaviruses, arenaviruses, coronaviruses, enteroviruses, filoviruses, flaviviruses, herpesviruses, orthomyxoviruses, paramyxoviruses, poxviruses, reoviruses, and rhabdoviruses (49 viruses).
Two novel rhabdoviruses were isolated from birds during surveillance for arboviral encephalitis in the northeastern United States.
 
 
 
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