Recurrence of animal rabies, Greece, 2012

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 328-

  Tasioudi, Konstantia E ^a   Iliadou, Peristera ^a   Agianniotaki, Eirini I ^a   Robardet, Emmanuelle ^b,c,d   Liandris, Emmanouil ^a   Doudounakis, Spiridon ^a   Tzani, Mirsini ^a   Tsaroucha, Paraskevi ^a,e   Picard Meyer, Evelyne ^b,c,d   Cliquet, Florence ^b,c,d   Mangana Vougiouka, Olga ^a  

^a Ministry of Rural Development and Food   (Greece)

^b WHO Coll Cent for Research and Management in Zoonoses Control   (France)

^c OIE Reference Laboratory for Rabies   (France)

^d European Union   (Belgium)

^e Wildlife Surveillance and Eco epidemiology unit   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RABIES VACCINE; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL RABIES; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DOG; DOG DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FOX; GENETICS; GREECE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LETTER; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHYLOGENY; RABIES; RABIES DIAGNOSTIC; RABIES VIRUS; RT-PCR; VACCINATION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS; VIRUS GENOME; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMAL RABIES; GREECE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; RABIES; RABIES DIAGNOSTIC; RT-PCR; VIRUSES; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FOXES; GENOME, VIRAL; GREECE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHYLOGENY; RABIES; RABIES VACCINES; RABIES VIRUS; RNA, VIRAL; VACCINATION;

EID: 84892603905     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2002.130473     Document Type: Letter

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