Serologic evidence of flavivirus infection in bats in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 684-689

  Machain Williams, Carlos ^a   López Uribe, Mildred ^a   Talavera Aguilar, Lourdes ^a   Carrillo Navarrete, Jaquelin ^b   Vera Escalante, Luis ^b   Puerto Manzano, Fernando ^b   Ulloa, Armando ^c   Farfán Ale, José Arturo ^a   Garcia Rejon, Julián ^a   Blitvich, Bradley J ^d   Loroño Pino, María Alba ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

^b CIR Hideyo Noguchi   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bats; Chiroptera; Dengue virus; Flavivirus; Mexico; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BAT; BATS; BLOOD; DENGUE VIRUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FLAVIVIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MEXICO; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURVEILLANCE; VIROLOGY;

BATS; CHIROPTERA; DENGUE VIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS; MEXICO; SURVEILLANCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHIROPTERA; FEMALE; FLAVIVIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTIONS; MALE; MEXICO; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARTIBEUS JAMAICENSIS; ARTIBEUS LITURATUS; CHIROPTERA; CHOERONYCTERIS; DENGUE VIRUS; DENGUE VIRUS GROUP; FLAVIVIRUS; GLOSSOPHAGA SORICINA; ST. LOUIS ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84879138005     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/2012-12-318     Document Type: Article

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