Endemic Lagos bat virus infection in Eidolon helvum

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 140, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2163-2171

  Hayman, D T S ^a,b,c,d   Fooks, A R ^b,e   Rowcliffe, J M ^c   McCrea, R ^f   Restif, O ^a   Baker, K S ^a,c   Horton, D L ^b   Suu Ire, R ^g   Cunningham, A A ^c   Wood, J L N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^g Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Capture mark recapture; Lyssavirus; multi state model; rabies; straw coloured fruit bat; time series data

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EIDOLON HELVUM; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; INFECTION RISK; LAGOS BAT LYSSAVIRUS; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; RABIES VIRUS; RHABDOVIRUS INFECTION; SEROPREVALENCE; SURVIVAL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BRAIN; CHIROPTERA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GHANA; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LYSSAVIRUS; MALE; MOUTH; RHABDOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RNA, VIRAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 84865991869     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268812000167     Document Type: Article

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