Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Rabies Virus (But Were Afraid to Ask)

Annual Review of Virology

Volumn 2, Issue , 2015, Pages 451-471

  Davis, Benjamin M ^a   Rall, Glenn F ^c   Schnell, Matthias J ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Microbiology and Immunology ^*  (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Lyssaviruses; Neuroinvasive virus; Neurotropic virus; Rabies virus; Viral transport

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN;

CELL STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST; HUMAN; IMMUNE EVASION; LIFE CYCLE; LYMPHOCYTE; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; REVIEW; TAXONOMY; VIRUS ENTRY; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; ANIMAL; GENETICS; KNOWLEDGE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; VIROLOGY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84969211151     PISSN: 2327056X     EISSN: 23270578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-virology-100114-055157     Document Type: Review

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