Yellow pygmy rice rat (Oligoryzomys flavescens) and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in Uruguay

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 846-852

  Delfraro, Adriana ^a   Clara, Mario ^a   Tomé, Lorena ^a   Achaval, Federico ^a   Levis, Silvana ^b   Calderón, Gladys ^b   Enria, Delia ^b   Lozano, Mario ^c   Russi, José ^d   Arbiza, Juan ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

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

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE QUILMES   (Argentina)

^d MINISTERIO DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^e Facultad de Ciencias   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; GENOME; HANTAVIRUS PULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGORYZOMYS FLAVESCENS; PHYLOGENY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; URUGUAY; VIRUS INFECTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETICS; HANTAVIRUS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS PULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; RATS; URUGUAY;

EID: 0038048152     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0907.030044     Document Type: Article

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