Molecular characterization of cryptically circulating rabies virus from ferret badgers, Taiwan

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 790-798

  Chiou, Hue Ying ^a   Hsieh, Chia Hung ^a   Jeng, Chian Ren ^a   Chan, Fang Tse ^b   Wang, Hurng Yi ^a   Pang, Victor Fei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MATRIX PROTEIN; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PROTEIN M; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BADGER; FERRET; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RABIES VIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAIWAN; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RABIES; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FERRETS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, VIRAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; TAIWAN;

EID: 84898917970     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2005.131389     Document Type: Article

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