Detection of lassa virus, mali

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1123-1126

  Safronetz, David ^a   Lopez, Job E ^a   Sogoba, Nafomon ^b   Traore', Sékou F ^b   Raffel, Sandra J ^a   Fischer, Elizabeth R ^a   Ebihara, Hideki ^a   Branco, Luis ^c,d   Garry, Robert F ^c   Schwan, Tom G ^a   Feldmann, Heinz ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAMAKO   (Mali)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Autoimmune Technologies LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARENAVIRUS INFECTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; LASSA VIRUS; MALE; MALI; MAMMAL; MASTOMYS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS PARTICLE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MURINAE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; LASSA VIRUS; MALI; MURINAE;

EID: 77954452458     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1607.100146     Document Type: Article

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