Isolation of Lagos bat virus from water mongoose

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1913-1918

  Markotter, Wanda ^a   Kuzmin, Ivan ^b   Rupprecht, Charles E ^b   Randles, Jenny ^c   Sabeta, Claude T ^d   Wandeler, Alexander I ^e   Nel, Louis H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c Allerton Provincial Veterinary Laboratory   (South Africa)

^d ONDERSTEPOORT VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^e CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; VIRUS VACCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BAT; CARNIVORA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; SOUTH AFRICA; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

EID: 33845468715     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1212.060514     Document Type: Article

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