Possible emergence of West Caucasian bat virus in Africa

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1887-1889

  Kuzmin, Ivan V ^a   Niezgoda, Michael ^a   Franka, Richard ^a   Agwanda, Bernard ^b   Markotter, Wanda ^c   Beagley, Janet C ^d   Urazova, Olga Yu ^a   Breiman, Robert F ^e   Rupprecht, Charles E ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Kenya   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BAT; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; KENYA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RABIES VIRUS; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; WEST CAUCASIAN BAT VIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHIROPTERA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; FEMALE; KENYA; LYSSAVIRUS; MALE; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; RHABDOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS;

EID: 57049142115     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1412.080750     Document Type: Article

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