Asymptomatic rhabdovirus infection in meridional serotine bats (Eptesicus isabellinus) from Spain

Developments in Biologicals

Volumn 131, Issue , 2008, Pages 311-316

  Vazquez Moron S ^a   Juste, J ^b   Ibanez C ^b   Aznar, C ^a   Ruiz Villamor, E ^c   Echevarría, Juan E ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c Laboratorio Central de Sanidad Animal   (Spain)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic infection; Rhabdovirus; Serotine bats; Spain

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BAT; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; OROPHARYNX; RABIES VIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPAIN; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CHIROPTERA; LYSSAVIRUS; OROPHARYNX; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHABDOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RNA, VIRAL; SPAIN;

EID: 44649153775     PISSN: 14246074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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