Short report: Dual infections with Puumala virus and Leptospira interrogans serovar lora in a bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus)

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 612-614

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

^a Cellular Immunology Unit ^*  (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c Institute of Public Health   (Croatia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; NONHUMAN; PUUMALA VIRUS; SEROTYPE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VOLE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARVICOLINAE; CLASSIFICATION; CROATIA; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT DISEASE; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER;

CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; PUUMALA VIRUS;

PRIMER DNA;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; CROATIA; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA PRIMERS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HUMANS; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUUMALA VIRUS; RODENT DISEASES;

EID: 33646345100     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2006.74.612     Document Type: Article

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