Detection of multiple strains of rabies virus RNA using primers designed to target Mexican vampire bat variants

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 927-934

  Loza Rubio, Elizabeth ^a   Rojas Anaya, E ^a   Banda Ruiz V M ^a   Nadin Davis, S A ^b   Cortez Garcia B ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES FORESTALES   (Mexico)

^b Ottawa Laboratory Fallowfield   (Canada)

^c CENASA SENASICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS NUCLEOPROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DILUTION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GEOGRAPHY; INOCULATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LD 50; MEXICO; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDIZATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TITRATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHIROPTERA; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; MEXICO; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 26944489556     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095026880500405X     Document Type: Article

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