Novel poxvirus in big brown bats, northwestern United States

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1002-1004

  Emerson, Ginny L ^a   Nordhausen, Robert ^b   Garner, Michael M ^c   Huckabee, John R ^d   Johnson, Steven ^d   Wohrle, Ron D ^e   Davidson, Whitni B ^a   Wilkins, Kimberly ^a   Li, Yu ^a   Doty, Jeffrey B ^a   Gallardo Romero, Nadia F ^a   Metcalfe, Maureen G ^a   Karem, Kevin L ^a   Damon, Inger K ^a   Carroll, Darin S ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORTHWEST ZOOPATH   (United States)

^d PAWS Wildlife Center   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BAT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENTOMOPOXVIRUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HISTOLOGY; JOINT SWELLING; LETHARGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PATHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POXVIRUS; POXVIRUS INFECTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TENOSYNOVITIS; UNITED STATES;

BIG BROWN BATS; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; EXPEDITED; OSTEOMYELITIS; POXVIRUS; UNITED STATES; VIRUSES; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; GENOME, VIRAL; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POXVIRIDAE;

EID: 84877932286     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1906.121713     Document Type: Article

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