Newfound hantavirus in Chinese mole shrew, Vietnam

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1784-1787

  Song, Jin Won ^a   Hae, Ji Kang ^a   Song, Ki Joon ^a   Truong, Thang T ^b,c   Bennett, Shannon N ^b   Arai, Satoru ^b   Truong, Ninh U ^c   Yanagihara, Richard ^b,d  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology   (Viet Nam)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HANTAVIRUS; LUNG PARENCHYMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHREW; VIET NAM; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

EID: 36248968822     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1311.070492     Document Type: Article

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