Hantavirus in northern short-tailed shrew, United States

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1420-1423

  Arai, Satoru ^a   Song, Jin Won ^b   Sumibcay, Laarni ^a   Bennett, Shannon N ^a   Nerurkar, Vivek R ^a   Parmenter, Cheryl ^c   Cook, Joseph A ^c   Yates, Terry L ^c   Yanagihara, Richard ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HANTAVIRUS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHREW; UNITED STATES; VIRUS DETECTION;

EID: 34848911599     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1309.070484     Document Type: Article

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