Fruit bats as a natural reservoir of zoonotic viruses

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1179-1182

  Jia, Guangle ^a   Zhang, Ying ^b   Wu, Tinghe ^a   Zhang, Shuyi ^a   Wang, Yinan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANXI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fruit bat; Natural reservoir; Zoonotic virus

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749651759     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/03wc0177     Document Type: Article

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