Epidemiology and pathogenicity of African bat Lyssaviruses

Developments in Biologicals

Volumn 131, Issue , 2008, Pages 317-325

  Markotter, W ^a   Van Eeden, C ^a   Kuzmin, I V ^b   Rupprecht, C E ^b   Paweska, J T ^c   Swanepoel, R ^c   Fooks, A R ^d   Sabeta, C T ^e   Cliquet, F ^f   Nel, L H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^d VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^e ONDERSTEPOORT VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^f Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

Author keywords

Africa; Bats; Duvenhage virus; Lagos bat virus; Lyssaviruses; South Africa

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BAT; CLASSIFICATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; RABIES VIRUS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BASE SEQUENCE; CHIROPTERA; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LYSSAVIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOPROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; RHABDOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 44549083969     PISSN: 14246074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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