High diversity of rabies viruses associated with insectivorous bats in Argentina: Presence of several independent enzootics

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Piñero, Carolina ^a   Dohmen, Federico ^b   Beltran, Fernando ^b   Martinez, Leila ^a   Novaro, Laura ^c   Russo, Susana ^c   Palacios, Gustavo ^d   Cisterna, Daniel M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS   (Argentina)

^b Instituto de Zoonosis Dr Luis Pasteur ^*  (Argentina)

^c Servicio Nacional de Sanidad y Calidad Agroalimentaria Argentina   (Argentina)

^d GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BAT; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DNA SEQUENCE; EPTESICUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HISTIOTUS MONTANUS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LASIURUS BLOSSEVIILLI; LASIURUS CINEREUS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MYOTIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TADARIDA BRASILIENSIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TYPING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEROTYPING; VIROLOGY;

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; CHIROPTERA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMICS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING;

EID: 84863706959     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001635     Document Type: Article

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