High diversity of RNA viruses in Rodents, Ethiopia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2047-2050

  Meheretu, Yonas ^a,b,c   Čížková, Dagmar ^a   Těšíková, Jana ^a   Welegerima, Kiros ^b   Tomas, Zewdneh ^b   Kidane, Dawit ^b   Girmay, Kokob ^b   Schmidt Chanasit, Jonas ^d   Bryja, Josef ^a   Günther, Stephan ^d   Bryjová, Anna ^a   Leirs, Herwig ^c   de Bellocq, Joëlle Goüy ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^b MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARENAVIRUS; ARTICLE; ETHIOPIA; HANTAVIRUS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHREW; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS CARRIER;

ANIMALS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ETHIOPIA; HANTAVIRUS; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; RNA VIRUSES; RNA, VIRAL; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA;

EID: 84869827893     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1812.120596     Document Type: Article

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