Epidemiology of vampire bat-transmitted rabies virus in Goiaαs, central Brazil: Re-evaluation based on G-L intergenic region

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hirano, Shinji ^a   Itou, Takuya ^a   Carvalho, Adolorata A B ^b   Ito, Fumio H ^c   Sakai, Takeo ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Zootechny   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESMODUS ROTUNDUS; RABIES VIRUS;

EID: 78049465607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-3-288     Document Type: Article

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