Encephalitis Caused by a Lyssavirus in Fruit Bats in Australia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 327-330

  Fraser, Graeme C ^a   Hooper, Peter T ^b   Lunt, Ross A ^b   Gould, Allan R ^b   Gleeson, Laurence J ^b   Hyatt, Alex D ^b   Russell, Gail M ^b   Kattenbelt, Jaqueline A ^b  

^a NSW AGRICULTURE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BAT; BRAIN; CELL CULTURE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOUSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABIES VIRUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; AUSTRALIA; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CHIROPTERA; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYSSAVIRUS; MICE; NUCLEOCAPSID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHABDOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0030253686     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0204.960408     Document Type: Article

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