Lagos bat virus transmission in an Eidolon helvum bat colony, Ghana

Virus Research

Volumn 210, Issue , 2015, Pages 42-45

  Freuling, Conrad M ^a   Binger, Tabea ^b   Beer, Martin ^a   Adu Sarkodie, Yaw ^c   Schatz, Juliane ^a   Fischer, Melina ^a   Hanke, Dennis ^a   Hoffmann, Bernd ^a   Höper, Dirk ^a   Mettenleiter, Thomas C ^a   Oppong, Samual K ^c   Drosten, Christian ^b   Müller, Thomas ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Bat rabies; Full genome sequencing; Lagos bat lyssavirus; Lyssaviruses; Pan lyssa realtime PCR; Serological survey

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAT; BRAIN; CROSS REACTION; EIDOLON HELVUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GHANA; LAGOS BAT VIRUS; LYSSAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; RHABDOVIRUS INFECTION; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHIROPTERA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; GHANA; LYSSAVIRUS; RHABDOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 84947764319     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: 18727492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2015.07.009     Document Type: Article

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