Natural host relationships of hantaviruses native to Western Venezuela

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 605-611

  Milazzo, Mary L ^a   Duno, Gloria ^b   Utrera, Antonio ^c   Richter, Martin H ^a   Duno, Freddy ^b   De Manzione, Nuris ^b   Fulhorst, Charles F ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b Region Sanitaria del Estado Portuguesa   (Venezuela)

^c Universidad Nacional Experimental de Los Llanos Occidentales Ezequiel Zamora Guanare   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Alston's cotton rat; Bunyaviridae; Ca oDelgadito virus; Hantavirus; Maporal virus; Oligoryzomys; Pygmy rice rat; Short tailed cane mouse; Sigmodon alstoni; Venezuela; Zygodontomys brevicauda.

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANO DELGADITO VIRUS; COTTON RAT; GRASS; HANTAVIRUS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MAPORAL VIRUS; NATURAL HOST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RICE RAT; TREE; VEGETATION; VENEZUELA; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MALE; RODENTIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VENEZUELA;

BUNYAVIRIDAE; CANO DELGADITO VIRUS; HANTAVIRUS; MAPORAL VIRUS; OLIGORYZOMYS; OLIGORYZOMYS SP.; ORYZOMYS; RODENTIA; SIGMODON; SIGMODON ALSTONI; ZYGODONTOMYS BREVICAUDA;

EID: 77957368280     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2009.0118     Document Type: Article

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