Hepatitis E virus in Rats, Los Angeles, California, USA

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2216-2222

  Purcell, Robert H ^a   Engle, Ronald E ^a   Rood, Michael P ^b   Kabrane Lazizi, Yamina ^a,e   Nguyen, Hanh T ^a   Govindarajan, Sugantha ^c   Claire, Marisa St ^a,d   Emerson, Suzanne U ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b Department of Public Health Services ^*  (United States)

^c RANCHO LOS AMIGOS NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER   (United States)

^d BIOQUAL INC   (United States)

^e Embassy of France   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; KUPFFER CELL; NONHUMAN; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROCONVERSION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; UNITED STATES; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84930479946     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1712.110482     Document Type: Article

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