Pet rats as a source of hantavirus in England and Wales, 2013

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Jameson, L J ^a,b   Taori, S K ^a   Atkinson, B ^a   Levick, P ^a   Featherstone, C A ^c   van der Burgt, G ^c   McCarthy, N ^a   Hart, J ^d   Osborne, J C ^a   Walsh, A L ^a   Brooks, T J ^a   Hewson, R ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRUSH SYNDROME; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS INFECTION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PET ANIMAL; PHYLOGENY; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RNA EXTRACTION; UNITED KINGDOM; URINALYSIS; VIRUS STRAIN;

EID: 84874592800     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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