Novel hantavirus sequences in Shrew, Guinea [16]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 520-522

  Klempa, Boris ^a,b   Fichet Calvet, Elisabeth ^c   Lecompte, Emilie ^d   Auste, Brita ^a   Aniskin, Vladimir ^e   Meisel, Helga ^a   Barrière, Patrick ^f   Koivogui, Lamine ^g   Ter Meulen, Jan ^d,h   Krüger, Detlev H ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^e SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^g Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Project   (Guinea)

^h LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BUNYAVIRUS; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CRUSH SYNDROME; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GUINEA; HANTAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; LETTER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING TEST; SHREW; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33847363291     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1303.061198     Document Type: Letter

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