Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus infection of spiny rats

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 663-669

  Carrara, Anne Sophie ^a   Gonzales, Marta ^b   Ferro, Cristina ^b   Tamayo, Margarita ^b   Aronson, Judith ^a   Paessler, Slobodan ^a   Anishchenko, Michael ^a   Boshell, Jorge ^b   Weaver, Scott C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD   (Colombia)

^c University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MEXICO; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; RAT; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 17844407188     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1105.041251     Document Type: Article

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