Hantavirus in bat, Sierra Leone

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 159-161

  Weiss, Sabrina ^a   Witkowski, Peter T ^b   Auste, Brita ^b   Nowa, Kathrin ^a   Weber, Natalie ^c   Fah, Jakob ^d   Mombouli, Jean Vivien ^e   Wolfe, Nathan D ^f   Drexler, Jan Felix ^g   Drosten, Christian ^g   Klempa, Boris ^b   Leendertz, Fabian H ^a   Kruger, Detlev H ^b,h  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^e Laboratoire National de Sante Publique Congo   (Congo)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^h INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BAT; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HANTAVIRUS; LETTER; MAGBOI VIRUS; MOLE (INSECTIVORA); NATIONAL PARK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYCTERIS HISPIDA; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; RIVER; SHREW; SIERRA LEONE; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHIROPTERA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HANTAAN VIRUS; HANTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 84856567710     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1801.111026     Document Type: Letter

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