Bats and Viruses: Friend or Foe?

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Wynne, James W ^a   Wang, Lin Fa ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BAT; CORONAVIRUS; FILOVIRUS; GENOMICS; HENIPAVIRUS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; VIRUS CARCINOGENESIS; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; HUMANS; RNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; RNA VIRUSES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84887311005     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003651     Document Type: Article

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