Removing deer mice from buildings and the risk for human exposure to Sin Nombre virus

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 390-392

  Douglass, Richard J ^a   Kuenzi, Amy J ^a   Williams, Courtney Y ^b   Douglass, Samuel J ^c   Mills, James N ^d  

^a MONTANA TECH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIN HOMBRE VIRUS ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BUILDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUTHANASIA; EXPOSURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SIN HOMBRE VIRUS; VIRUS; VIRUS EXPOSURE;

EID: 0037342197     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0903.020470     Document Type: Article

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