Ecology and demographics of hantavirus infections in rodent populations in the Walker River Basin of Nevada and California

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 445-451

  Boone, John D ^a   Otteson, Elmer W ^b   McGwire, Kenneth C ^c   Villard, Pascal ^b   Rowe, Joan E ^b   St Jeor, Stephen C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

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

^c DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; HANTAVIRUS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIVER; RODENT; SEROPREVALENCE; UNITED STATES; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 0031660489     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1998.59.445     Document Type: Article

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