Is marburg virus enzootic in Gabon?

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 204, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2011, Pages

  Maganga, Gael D ^a   Bourgarel, Mathieu ^a,b   Ebang Ella, Ghislain ^a   Drexler, Jan Felix ^c   Gonzalez, Jean Paul ^a   Drosten, Christian ^c   Leroy, Eric M ^a,d  

^a CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉDICALES DE FRANCEVILLE   (Gabon)

^b Centre de Coopération Internationale de Recherche Agronomique Pour le Développement   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAT; CLADISTICS; GABON; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MARBURG VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROUSETTUS AEGYPTIACUS; SCREENING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GABON; MARBURG VIRUS DISEASE; MARBURGVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 80054718907     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir358     Document Type: Article

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