Bluetongue in Eurasian lynx

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1496-1498

  Jauniaux, Thierry P ^a,b   De Clercq, Kris E ^c   Cassart, Dominique E ^b   Kennedy, Seamus ^d   Vandenbussche, Frank E ^c   Vandemeulebroucke, Elise L ^c   Vanbinst, Tine M ^c   Verheyden, Bart I ^c   Goris, Nesya E ^c   Coignoul, Freddy L ^b  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c VETERINARY AND AGROCHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^d AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; LETTER; LYNX; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; BLUETONGUE; LUNG; LYNX;

EID: 50849141706     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1409.080434     Document Type: Letter

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