Sin Nombre virus and rodent species diversity: A test of the dilution and amplification hypotheses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Clay, Christine A ^a   Lehmer, Erin M ^b   St Jeor, Stephen ^c   Dearing, M Denise ^d  

^a WESTMINSTER COLLEGE   (United States)

^b FORT LEWIS COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DILUTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RAT; RODENT; SIN NOMBRE VIRUS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIROLOGY;

DIPODOMYS; DIPODOMYS ORDII; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; PEROMYSCUS TRUEI; RODENTIA; SIN NOMBRE VIRUS;

ANIMALS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; MICE; RATS; RODENTIA; SIN NOMBRE VIRUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 68149154953     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006467     Document Type: Article

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