Filovirus RNA in fruit bats, China

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1675-1677

  He, Biao ^a   Feng, Yun ^b   Zhang, Hailin ^b   Xu, Lin ^a   Yang, Weihong ^b   Zhang, Yuzhen ^b   Li, Xingyu ^a   Tu, Changchun ^a,c  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^b Yunnan Institute of Endemic Diseases Control and Prevention   (China)

^c YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

BAT; CHINA; EBOLAVIRUS; FILOVIRUS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; LETTER; MARBURGVIRUS; METAGENOMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SERODIAGNOSIS; VIRUS ISOLATION; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; FILOVIRIDAE; FILOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHINA; CHIROPTERA; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FILOVIRIDAE; FILOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 84939494703     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2109.150260     Document Type: Letter

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