| molecular epidemiology of rabies in southern people's republic of china. | in recent years, the number of human rabies cases in the people's republic of china has increased during severe epidemics in 3 southern provinces (guizhou, guangxi, and hunan). to analyze the causes of the high incidence of human rabies in this region, during 2005-2007, we collected 2,887 brain specimens from apparently healthy domestic dogs used for meat consumption in restaurants, 4 specimens from suspected rabid dogs, and 3 from humans with rabies in the 3 provinces. partial nucleoprotein gen ... | 2009 | 19751579 |