Novel betaherpesvirus in bats

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 986-988

  Watanabe, Shumpei ^a   Maeda, Ken ^b   Suzuki, Kazuo ^c   Ueda, Naoya ^a   Iha, Koichiro ^a   Taniguchi, Satoshi ^a   Shimoda, Hiroshi ^b   Kato, Kentaro ^a   Yoshikawa, Yasuhiro ^a   Morikawa, Shigeru ^d   Kurane, Ichiro ^d   Akashi, Hiroomi ^a   Mizutani, Tetsuya ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Hikiiwa Park Center   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BAT; BETAHERPESVIRINAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION;

ANIMALS; BETAHERPESVIRINAE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CHIROPTERA; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIROLOGY; ZOONOSES;

EID: 77952682864     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1606.091567     Document Type: Article

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