Tula virus infections in the Eurasian water vole in central Europe

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 503-513

  Schlegel, Mathias ^a   Kindler, Eveline ^b   Essbauer, Sandra S ^c   Wolf, Ronny ^d   Thiel, Jörg ^e   Groschup, Martin H ^a   Heckel, Gerald ^b,g   Oehme, Rainer M ^f   Ulrich, Rainer G ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^e Thüringer Landesanstalt für Wald Jagd und Fischerei ^*  (Germany)

^f Landesgesundheitsamt Baden Wuerttemberg   (Germany)

^g SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arvicola amphibius; Central Europe; Hantavirus; Tula virus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARVICOLA AMPHIBIUS; DISEASE CARRIER; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HANTAVIRUS INFECTION; HOST RANGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TULA VIRUS INFECTION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; VOLE;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; EUROPE; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; PHYLOGENY; RODENT DISEASES;

EID: 84862218508     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2011.0784     Document Type: Article

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