Vampire bat rabies: Ecology, epidemiology and control

Viruses

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1911-1928

  Johnson, Nicholas ^a   Aréchiga Ceballos, Nidia ^b   Aguilar Setien, Alvaro ^c  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b Enteric Bacteriology Laboratory   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Desmodus rotundus; Rabies virus; Transmission; Vampire bat

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; GLYCOPROTEIN; MATRIX PROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; WARFARIN;

ADAPTATION; BAT; BIOLOGY; BLOOD CLOTTING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESMODUS ROTUNDUS; DIAEMUS YOUNGI; DIPHYLLA ECAUDATA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RABIES; REVIEW; SEROPREVALENCE; VACCINATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS TYPING; WOUND; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; RABIES VIRUS; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; ECOLOGY; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84899766455     PISSN: 19994915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v6051911     Document Type: Review

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