Bat Rabies in Guatemala

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Ellison, James A ^a,b   Gilbert, Amy T ^c   Recuenco, Sergio ^a   Moran, David ^d   Alvarez, Danilo A ^d   Kuzmina, Natalia ^a   Garcia, Daniel L ^e   Peruski, Leonard F ^e   Mendonça, Mary T ^b   Lindblade, Kim A ^e   Rupprecht, Charles E ^f  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE DE GUATEMALA   (Guatemala)

^e CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^f ROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Saint Kitts and Nevis)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN; VIRUS NUCLEOPROTEIN; VIRUS RNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BAT; DESMODUS ROTUNDUS; EL SALVADOR; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GUATEMALA; MEXICO; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; RAPID FLUORESCENT FOCUS INHIBITION TEST; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN GENE; VIRUS NUCLEOPROTEIN GENE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GUATEMALA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRAL STRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84905485568     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003070     Document Type: Article

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