Antibodies to henipavirus or henipa-like viruses in domestic pigs in Ghana, West Africa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Hayman, David T S ^a,b,c,d   Wang, Lin Fa ^e   Barr, Jennifer ^e   Baker, Kate S ^a,b   Suu Ire, Richard ^f   Broder, Christopher C ^g   Cunningham, Andrew A ^b   Wood, James L N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

^f Wildlife Division of the Ghana Forestry Commission   (Ghana)

^g UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EPIDEMIC; GHANA; HENIPAVIRUS; HENIPAVIRUS INFECTION; MALAYSIA; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SWINE DISEASE; ANIMAL; GOAT; IMMUNOLOGY; NIPAH VIRUS; SHEEP; SWINE;

EIDOLON HELVUM; HENDRA VIRUS; HENIPAVIRUS; NIPAH VIRUS; PTEROPODIDAE; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; GHANA; GOATS; HENIPAVIRUS; NIPAH VIRUS; SHEEP; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 80053070526     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025256     Document Type: Article

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