Puumala virus in Croatia in the 2002 HFRS outbreak

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 290-294

  Cvetko, Lidija ^a   Markotić, Alemka ^a   Plyusnina, Angelina ^b   Margaletić, Josip ^c   Miletić Medved, Marica ^d   Turk, Nenad ^e   Milas, Zoran ^e   Avšič Županc, Tatjana ^f   Plyusnin, Alexander ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^d Institute of Public Health   (Croatia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Clethrionomys glareolus; Hantaviruses; Molecular epidemiology; Phylogenetic analysis

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HANTAVIRUS; HUMAN; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LUNG PARENCHYMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PUUMALA VIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; VIRUS STRAIN; VOLE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; CROATIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PUUMALA VIRUS;

CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MURIDAE; PUUMALA VIRUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 24644495621     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.20448     Document Type: Article

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