Survey of Japanese encephalitis virus in pigs on Miyako, Ishigaki, Kume, and Yonaguni Islands in Okinawa, Japan

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 220-224

  Nidaira, Minoru ^a   Taira, Katsuya ^a   Okano, Shou ^a   Shinzato, Takenori ^b   Morikawa, Takashi ^b   Tokumine, Mitsuo ^c   Asato, Yuko ^d   Tada, Yukihiro ^e   Miyagi, Kunitarou ^f   Matsuda, Seiko ^a   Itokazu, Kiyomasa ^a   Kudaka, Jun ^a   Nakamura, Masaji ^a   Tamanaha, Kouji ^a  

^a OKINAWA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT   (Japan)

^b Okinawa Prefectural Chuo Meat Inspection Center   (Japan)

^c Okinawa Prefectural Miyako Public Health Center   (Japan)

^d Okinawa Prefectural Nanbu Public Health and Welfare Center   (Japan)

^e Okinawa Prefectural Hokubu Meat Inspection Center   (Japan)

^f Okinawa Prefectural Yaeyama Public Health and Welfare Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA; VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; GENOTYPE; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TEST; JAPAN; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SWINE; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; SWINE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, JAPANESE; ENCEPHALITIS, JAPANESE; HEMAGGLUTININS, VIRAL; JAPAN; PHYLOGENY; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 69249235511     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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