Serological Evidence of Rift Valley Fever Virus Circulation in Sheep and Goats in Zambézia Province, Mozambique

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Fafetine, José ^a   Neves, Luis ^a   Thompson, Peter N ^b   Paweska, Janusz T ^c   Rutten, Victor P M G ^b,d   Coetzer, J A W ^b,d  

^a EDUARDO MONDLANE UNIVERSITY   (Mozambique)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GOAT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOZAMBIQUE; NONHUMAN; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER BUNYAVIRUS; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SHEEP; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION;

EID: 84874778543     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002065     Document Type: Article

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