Beech fructification and bank vole population dynamics - Combined analyses of promoters of human puumala virus infections in Germany

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Reil, Daniela ^a,b   Imholt, Christian ^a   Eccard, Jana Anja ^b   Jacob, Jens ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEECH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIC; FRUCTIFICATION; FRUITING; GERMANY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYODES GLAREOLUS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTION; PUUMALA VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; ARVICOLINAE; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; INCIDENCE; MALE; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; FAGUS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PUUMALA VIRUS;

EID: 84941670878     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134124     Document Type: Article

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