Bats and human emerging diseases

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 905-907

  Bennett, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

BAT; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; CORONAVIRUS; EBOLA VIRUS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EDITORIAL; FILOVIRUS; HENDRA VIRUS; HOST; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MONONEGAVIRALES; NIPAH VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAMYXOVIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABIES VIRUS; RHABDOVIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; STRUCTURAL GENE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WILDLIFE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CHINA; CHIROPTERA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HUMANS; SARS VIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME;

EID: 33748352581     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268806006674     Document Type: Editorial

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