Novel calicivirus identified in rabbits, Michigan, USA

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1955-1962

  Bergin, Ingrid L ^a   Wise, Annabel G ^b   Bolin, Steven R ^b   Mullaney, Thomas P ^b   Kiupel, Matti ^b   Maes, Roger K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLEEDING DISORDER; CALICIVIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LAGOVIRUS; LIVER NECROSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBIT; SEROLOGY; SUDDEN DEAFNESS; UNITED STATES; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALS; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE VIRUS, RABBIT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICHIGAN; PHYLOGENY; RABBITS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 73949102239     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1512.090839     Document Type: Article

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