Evolutionary history of rabies in Ghana

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Hayman, David T S ^a,b,c   Johnson, Nicholas ^a   Horton, Daniel L ^a   Hedge, Jessica ^d   Wakeley, Philip R ^a   Banyard, Ashley C ^a   Zhang, Shoufeng ^e   Alhassan, Andy ^f   Fooks, Anthony R ^a,g  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e Ministry of Food and Agriculture Ghana   (Ghana)

^f INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOPROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN TISSUE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; GHANA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BRAIN; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DOGS; GENOTYPE; GHANA; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 79955799181     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001001     Document Type: Article

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