New hantaviruses causing hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in central Argentina

Lancet

Volumn 349, Issue 9057, 1997, Pages 998-999

  Levis, Silvana ^a   Rowe, Joan E ^a   Morzunov, Sergey ^a   Enria, Delia A ^a   St Jeor, Stephen ^a,b  

^a Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas Dr Julio I Maiztegui   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS PULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0030937701     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)62895-4     Document Type: Article

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