Ecology of hantaviruses and their hosts in North America

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 563-574

  Mills, James N ^a   Amman, Brian R ^a   Glass, Gregory E ^b  

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

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecology; Hantavirus; Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome; North America; Predictive models; Reservoir; Rodents; Sin Nombre virus

Indexed keywords

ARVICOLINAE; ASH RIVER VIRUS; ASIA; BAYOU VIRUS; BLACK CREEK CANAL VIRUS; BLOODLAND LAKE VIRUS; BLUE RIVER VIRUS; BROWN NORWAY RAT; CAMP RIPLEY VIRUS; COTTON RAT; ECOLOGY; EL MORO CANYON VIRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS PULMONARY SYNDROME; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HOST; HUMAN; ISLA VISTA VIRUS; JEMEZ SPRINGS VIRUS; LIMESTONE CANYON VIRUS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MONONGAHELA VIRUS; MULESHOE VIRUS; MURINAE; NEW YORK VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PEROMYSCUS; PLAYA DE ORO VIRUS; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECT HILL VIRUS; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RICE RAT; RODENT; SEOUL VIRUS; SEROCONVERSION; SIGMODONTINAE; SIN NOMBRE VIRUS; UNITED STATES; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUSES BY HABITAT; VOLE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; GENOTYPE; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORTH AMERICA; PEROMYSCUS;

HANTAVIRUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; RODENTIA; SIN NOMBRE VIRUS;

EID: 77957366644     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2009.0018     Document Type: Review

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