A survey of rodent-borne pathogens carried by wild Rattus spp. in Northern Vietnam

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 141, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1876-1884

  Koma, T ^a   Yoshimatsu, K ^a   Yasuda, S P ^a   Li, T ^b   Amada, T ^a   Shimizu, K ^a   Isozumi, R ^a   Mai, L T Q ^c   Hoa, N T ^c   Nguyen, V ^d   Yamashiro, T ^e   Hasebe, F ^e   Arikawa, J ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^d Centre for International Health Quarantine   (Viet Nam)

^e NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hantavirus; hepatitis E; leptospirosis; surveillance; zoonoses

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HANTAVIRUS INFECTION; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RAT; SEOUL VIRUS; URBAN AREA; VIET NAM; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RATS; RNA, VIRAL; RODENT DISEASES; SEOUL VIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; VIETNAM; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84881477609     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268812002385     Document Type: Article

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