Buffalopox outbreak in humans and animals in Western Maharashtra, India

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 100, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 242-247

  Gurav, Yogesh K ^a   Raut, Chandrashekhar G ^a   Yadav, Pragya D ^a   Tandale, Babasaheb V ^a   Sivaram, Aruna ^a   Pore, Milind D ^b   Basu, Atanu ^a   Mourya, Devendra T ^a   Mishra, Akhilesh C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (India)

^b Panchyat Samiti Solapur   (India)

Author keywords

Buffalopox virus; Febrile rash; PCR; Poxvirus infections; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BUFFALO; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INDIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VACCINIA; VACCINIA VIRUS; VIROLOGY; ZOONOSIS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BUFFALOES; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VACCINIA; VACCINIA VIRUS; YOUNG ADULT; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; BUBALUS; BUFFALOPOX VIRUS; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; POXVIRIDAE;

EID: 79957931178     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2011.03.008     Document Type: Article

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