Lagos bat virus virulence in mice inoculated by the peripheral route

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 137, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1155-1162

  Markotter, Wanda ^a   Kuzmin, I V ^b   Rupprecht, C E ^b   Nel, L H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Glycoprotein; Lagos bat virus; Lyssavirus; Pathogenicity; Rabies

Indexed keywords

VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENOTYPE; INOCULATION; LAGOS BAT LYSSAVIRUS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RABIES VIRUS; SPECIES COMPARISON; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLYCOPROTEINS; LYSSAVIRUS; MICE; PHYLOGENY; RHABDOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 69949124457     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268808001945     Document Type: Article

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