How to diagnose hantavirus infections and detect them in rodents and insectivores

Reviews in Medical Virology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 277-288

  Vaheri, Antti ^a,b   Vapalahti, Olli ^a,b,c   Plyusnin, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ASIA; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EUROPE; GENOTYPE; HANTAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INSECTIVORE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; NONHUMAN; POINT OF CARE TESTING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; RODENT; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROLOGY; SIN NOMBRE VIRUS; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INSECTIVORA; RNA, VIRAL; RODENTIA;

EID: 47649100118     PISSN: 10529276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rmv.581     Document Type: Review

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