First genetic detection of Tula hantavirus in wild rodents in the Netherlands

Journal of Infection

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 500-503

  Reusken, Chantal ^a   de Vries, Ankje ^a   Adema, Jeroen ^a   Vos, Wim ^b   van der Giessen, Joke ^a   Bekker, Dick ^c   Heyman, Paul ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS VACCINE INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c Society for the Study and Conservation of Mammals (VZZ)   (Netherlands)

^d QUEEN ASTRID MILITARY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BELGIUM; BLOOD CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; CZECH REPUBLIC; HANTAVIRUS; LETTER; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RODENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERBIA; SEROPREVALENCE; SLOVAKIA; TULA HANTAVIRUS; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NETHERLANDS; RNA, VIRAL; RODENTIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 56949086759     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2008.09.032     Document Type: Letter

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