National Borders Effectively Halt the Spread of Rabies: The Current Rabies Epidemic in China Is Dislocated from Cases in Neighboring Countries

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Guo, Zhenyang ^a,b   Tao, Xiaoyan ^a   Yin, Cuiping ^a   Han, Na ^b   Yu, Jinning ^a   Li, Hao ^a   Liu, Haizhou ^b   Fang, Wei ^b   Adams, James ^b   Wang, Jun ^b   Liang, Guodong ^a   Tang, Qing ^a   Rayner, Simon ^b  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS NUCLEOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASIA; CHINA; GENE FLOW; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84873515661     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002039     Document Type: Article

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