Public Veterinary Medicine: Public Health Rabies virus variants identified in Nuevo Leon State, Mexico, from 2008 to 2015.

Objective: To identify rabies virus variants (RVVs) isolated from bats and terrestrial mammals in Nuevo Leon between 2008 and 2015 and Coahuila in 2006.

Sample: RVVs isolated from 15 bats and terrestrial mammals in Nuevo Leon and from a cow () in Coahuila, along with 46 reference rabies virus sequences.

Procedures: Antigenic characterization of the 16 isolates was performed with an indirect fluorescent antibody technique.