Prevalence of hantavirus infection in wild Rattus norvegicus and R. rattus populations of Buenos Aires City, Argentina

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 46-51

  Cueto, Gerardo Rubén ^a,c   Cavia, Regino ^a   Bellomo, Carla ^b   Padula, Paula Julieta ^b   Suárez, Olga Virginia ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS   (Argentina)

^c Laboratorio 104   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Buenos Aires; Hantavirus prevalence; Parkland; Rattus; Shantytown

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; IMMUNOASSAY; RODENT; SERUM; VIRAL DISEASE; VIRUS; WILD POPULATION;

ANDES VIRUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HANTAVIRUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFECTION RATE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PUNCTURE; RAT; SEOUL VIRUS; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTIVITY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ARGENTINA; FEMALE; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; PREVALENCE; RATS; RODENT DISEASES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARGENTINA; BUENOS AIRES [ARGENTINA]; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANDES VIRUS; HANTAVIRUS; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA; SEOUL VIRUS;

EID: 39449134582     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2007.01968.x     Document Type: Article

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