Australian bat lyssavirus infection in a captive juvenile black flying fox

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 438-440

  Field, Hume ^a   McCall, Brad ^b   Barrett, Janine ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

^b Brisbane Southside Public Health Unit   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSPHAGIA; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FOX; IMMUNOPEROXIDASE STAINING; NONHUMAN; PARESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABIES VIRUS; VACCINATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 0033026063     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0503.990316     Document Type: Article

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