One more piece in the VACV ecological puzzle: Could peridomestic rodents be the link between wildlife and bovine vaccinia outbreaks in Brazil?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Abrahão, Jônatas S ^a   Guedes, Maria Isabel M ^a   Trindade, Giliane S ^a   Fonseca, Flávio G ^a   Campos, Rafael K ^a   Mota, Bruno F ^a   Lobato, Zélia I P ^a   Silva Fernandes, André T ^a   Rodrigues, Gisele O L ^a   Lima, Larissa S ^a   Ferreira, Paulo C P ^a   Bonjardim, Cláudio A ^a   Kroon, Erna G ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RASH; RODENT; VACCINIA; VACCINIA VIRUS; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS ISOLATION; WILDLIFE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BIOASSAY; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ECOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIROLOGY; WILD ANIMAL; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; POXVIRIDAE; RODENTIA; VACCINIA VIRUS; VARIOLA VIRUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BRAZIL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; ECOLOGY; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RATS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VACCINIA; VACCINIA VIRUS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 70449397521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007428     Document Type: Article

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