Ferret badger rabies origin and its revisited importance as potential source of rabies transmission in Southeast China

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Liu, Ye ^a   Zhang, Shoufeng ^a   Wu, Xianfu ^b   Zhao, Jinghui ^a   Hou, Yanli ^c   Zhang, Fei ^a   Velasco Villa, Andres ^b   Rupprecht, Charles E ^b   Hu, Rongliang ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN; CHINA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; DOG DISEASE; FERRET; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOUSE; PHYLOGENY; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RODENT DISEASE; VIROLOGY; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BRAIN; CHINA; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FERRETS; HUMANS; MICE; PHYLOGENY; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RODENT DISEASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; ZOONOSES;

EID: 77955225062     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-234     Document Type: Article

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