Molecular and geographic analyses of vampire bat-transmitted cattle rabies in central Brazil

BMC Veterinary Research

Volumn 4, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kobayashi, Yuki ^a   Sato, Go ^a   Mochizuki, Nobuyuki ^a   Hirano, Shinji ^a   Itou, Takuya ^a   Carvalho, Adolorata A B ^b   Albas, Avelino ^c   Santos, Hamilton P ^d   Ito, Fumio H ^e   Sakai, Takeo ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c AGÊNCIA PAULISTA DE TECNOLOGIA DOS AGRONEGÓCIOS   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MARANHÃO   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOS; DESMODUS ROTUNDUS; RABIES VIRUS;

NUCLEOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BAT; BRAZIL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CHIROPTERA; DISEASE VECTORS; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOPROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS;

EID: 58749114403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17466148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-6148-4-44     Document Type: Article

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