No virological evidence for an influenza A - like virus in European bats

Zoonoses and Public Health

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 187-189

  Fereidouni, S ^a   Kwasnitschka, L ^a   Balkema Buschmann, A ^a   Muller T ^a   Freuling, C ^a   Schatz, J ^a   Pikula, J ^b   Bandouchova, H ^b   Hoffmann, R ^c   Ohlendorf, B ^d   Kerth, G ^e   Tong, S ^f   Donis, R ^f   Beer, M ^a   Harder, T ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^c Romanian Bat Protection Association   (Romania)

^d Bat protection office   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Bats; Infectious disease; Influenza; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAT; EUROPE; EUROPEAN; GENE SEQUENCE; GUATEMALAN; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFLUENZA A; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; METAPOPULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTH AMERICAN; TARGET ORGAN; ANIMAL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; OVUM; PUBLIC HEALTH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY; ZOONOSIS;

INFLUENZA A VIRUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; EUROPE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; OVUM; PUBLIC HEALTH; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84926222942     PISSN: 18631959     EISSN: 18632378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/zph.12131     Document Type: Article

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