Mokola virus in domestic mammals, South Africa

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1371-1373

  Sabeta, Claude T ^a,b   Markotter, Wanda ^b   Mohale, Debrah K ^a   Shumba, Wonderful ^a   Wandeler, Alexander I ^c   Nel, Louis H ^b  

^a ONDERSTEPOORT VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAT; CARNIVORA; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MOKOLA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHABDOVIRUS; RODENT; SHREW; SOUTH AFRICA; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

EID: 34848852639     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1309.070466     Document Type: Article

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