The potential role of rodents in the enzootic cycle of Rift Valley fever virus in Senegal

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 343-346

  Gora, Diop ^a   Yaya, Thiongane ^b   Jocelyn, Thonnon ^c   Didier, Fontenille ^d   Maoulouth, Diallo ^d   Amadou, Sall ^a   Ruel, Theodore D ^e   Gonzalez, Jean Paul ^d,f  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR   (Senegal)

^b Institut Senegalais de Recherches AgrEcoles Dakar   (Senegal)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LA GUYANE   (French Guiana)

^d Inst Rech Pour Le D   (France)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Rift Valley fever virus; Rodents; Senegal

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIFT VALLEY FEVER BUNYAVIRUS; RODENT; SENEGAL; SEROCONVERSION; VIRUS REPLICATION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALIA; ARVICANTHIS NILOTICUS; MASTOMYS ERYTHROLEUCUS; MASTOMYS HUBERTI; ORTHOBUNYAVIRUS; RATTUS RATTUS; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; RODENTIA;

EID: 0034058784     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1286-4579(00)00334-8     Document Type: Article

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