Bats, emerging infectious diseases, and the rabies paradigm revisited

Emerging Health Threats Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Kuzmin, Ivan V ^a   Bozick, Brooke ^b   Guagliardo, Sarah A ^b   Kunkel, Rebekah ^b   Shak, Joshua R ^b   Tong, Suxiang ^a   Rupprecht, Charles E ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bats; Chiroptera; Control; Coronavirus; Emerging infectious disease; Filovirus; Henipavirus; Lyssavirus; Prevention; Rabies

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; RABIES VACCINE; STAT1 PROTEIN; STAT2 PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; AWARENESS; BAT; BIODIVERSITY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CORONAVIRUS; DEGRADATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA VIRUS; ECOLOGY; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FILOVIRUS; FOOD INTAKE; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HENIPAVIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MARBURG VIRUS; NIPAH VIRUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; VACCINATION; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

EID: 80052698873     PISSN: 17528550     EISSN: 17528550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/ehtj.v4i0.7159     Document Type: Review

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