Hantavirus Infection in the Domestic Cat

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 272, Issue 14, 1994, Pages 1100-1101

  Nowotny, Norbert ^a   Weissenboeck, Herbert ^a   Aberle, Stephan ^b   Hinterdorfer, Friedrich ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c National Veterinary Institute ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; CAT; HANTAVIRUS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CAT DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; VIROLOGY;

ANIMAL; CAT DISEASES; CATS; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 0028131138     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1994.03520140030020     Document Type: Letter

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