Rabies virus rna in naturally infected vampire bats, northeastern Brazil

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2004-2006

  Carneiro, Aroldo J B ^a   Franke, Carlos R ^a   Stöcker, Andreas ^a   dos Santos, Flávia ^a   de Sá, José E Úngar ^b   Moraes Silva, Evandro ^c   Alves, José N M ^c   Brünink, Sebastian ^d   Corman, Victor M ^d   Drosten, Christian ^d   Drexler, Jan F ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^b Central Laboratory of Public Health   (Brazil)

^c Agency for Agriculture and Livestock Defence of Bahia   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS NUCLEOPROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

BAT; BRAZIL; ENCEPHALE ISOLE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LETTER; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROPREVALENCE; VAMPIRE BAT; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CHIROPTERA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; ZOONOSES;

EID: 78649593009     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1612.100726     Document Type: Letter

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