Enhanced Passive Bat Rabies Surveillance in Indigenous Bat Species from Germany - A Retrospective Study

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Schatz, Juliane ^a   Freuling, Conrad Martin ^a   Auer, Ernst ^b   Goharriz, Hooman ^c   Harbusch, Christine ^b   Johnson, Nicholas ^c   Kaipf, Ingrid ^d   Mettenleiter, Thomas Christoph ^a   Mühldorfer, Kristin ^e   Mühle, Ralf Udo ^f   Ohlendorf, Bernd ^b   Pott Dörfer, Bärbel ^b   Prüger, Julia ^b   Ali, Hanan Sheikh ^a   Stiefel, Dagmar ^b   Teubner, Jens ^b   Ulrich, Rainer Günter ^a   Wibbelt, Gudrun ^g   Müller, Thomas ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b Naturschutzbund Deutschland eV ^*  (Germany)

^c VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^g Leibniz Institute for Zoo und Wildlife Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAT; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EUROPEAN BAT LYSSAVIRUS TYPE 1; EUROPEAN BAT LYSSAVIRUS TYPE 2; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GERMANY; NATIVE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; VESPERTILIONIDAE; VIRUS ISOLATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYSSAVIRUS; PROCEDURES; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHIROPTERA; GERMANY; LYSSAVIRUS; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; RABIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84901748618     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002835     Document Type: Article

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