Shrews as reservoir hosts of borna disease virus

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 675-677

  Hilbe, Monika ^a,d   Herrsche, Romana ^a   Kolodziejek, Jolanta ^b   Nowotny, Norbert ^b,c   Zlinszky, Kati ^a   Ehrensperger, Felix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^d VETSUISSE FACULTY UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BORNA DISEASE; BORNA DISEASE VIRUS; BRAIN TISSUE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; INSECTIVORE; LABORATORY TEST; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWITZERLAND; VIRUS ISOLATION;

EID: 33645468745     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1204.051418     Document Type: Article

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