Ranavirus outbreak in north American bullfrogs ( Rana catesbeiana), Japan, 2008

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1146-1147

  Une, Yumi ^a   Sakuma, Akiko ^a   Matsueda, Hiroki ^a   Nakai, Katsuki ^b   Murakami, Masaru ^a  

^a AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Nature Conservation Division of Shiga Prefecture   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULLFROG; EPIDEMIC; IRIDOVIRUS; JAPAN; LETTER; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; VIRUS ETIOLOGY; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; JAPAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANA CATESBEIANA; RANAVIRUS;

EID: 67650680598     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1507.081636     Document Type: Letter

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