Exposure to SIVmnd-2 in southern Cameroon: Public health implications

AIDS Reviews

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 135-139

  Ndembi, Nicaise ^a,b   Kaptue, Lazare ^a   Ido, Eiji ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b MRC   (Uganda)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cameroon; Central Africa; Mandrills; SIVmnd 2; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

BLOOD SAMPLING; CAMEROON; CHIMPANZEE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HOUSEHOLD; INFECTION RISK; MANDRILLUS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PET ANIMAL; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SEROPREVALENCE; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BITES AND STINGS; CAMEROON; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; MANDRILLUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SIMIAN ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 70049093675     PISSN: 11396121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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