Simian foamy virus prevalence in Macaca mulatta and zookeepers

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 591-593

  Huang, Fen ^a   Wang, Huixuan ^b   Jing, Shenrong ^a   Zeng, Weikun ^a  

^a KUNMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b KUNMING GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS INFECTION; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIMIAN FOAMY VIRUS; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CHINA; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SIMIAN FOAMY VIRUS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84861847425     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: 19318405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/aid.2011.0305     Document Type: Article

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