Bat-borne rabies in latin America

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 63-72

  Escobar, Luis E ^a,b   Peterson, Townsend ^c   Favi, Myriam ^d   Yung, VeróNica ^d   Medina Vogel, Gonzalo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD ANDRÉS BELLO   (Chile)

^b SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO DE SALUD PÚBLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Bats; Biodiversity; Geographic distribution; Rabies virus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMBALLONURIDAE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FURIPTERIDAE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOLOSSIDAE; MORMOOPIDAE; NATALIDAE; NOCTILIONIDAE; NONHUMAN; PHYLLOSTOMIDAE; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; RNA VIRUS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; THYROPTERIDAE; VESPERTILIONIDAE; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; VIROLOGY; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CHIROPTERA; RABIES VIRUS;

EID: 84922308899     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: 16789946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652015000100009     Document Type: Article

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