Genetic characterization of rabies field isolates from Thailand

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 653-659

  Susetya, Heru ^a   Sugiyama, Makoto ^a   Inagaki, Akio ^a   Ito, Naoto ^a   Oraveerakul, Kanisak ^b   Traiwanatham, Nimit ^c   Minamoto, Nobuyuki ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c S Regl Vet Diagnostic Center   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Molecular epidemiology; Phylogenetic analysis; Rabies virus; Thailand

Indexed keywords

VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOG; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RABIES; T1 GENOGROUP; T2 GENOGROUP; THAILAND; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS N GENE;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; RABIES VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0141591751     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2003.tb03428.x     Document Type: Article

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