Lyssavirus in Indian flying Foxes, Sri Lanka

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1456-1459

  Gunawardena, Panduka S ^a   Marston, Denise A ^b   Ellis, Richard J ^b   Wise, Emma L ^b   Karawita, Anjana C ^a   Breed, Andrew C ^b   McElhinney, Lorraine M ^b,c   Johnson, Nicholas ^b   Banyard, Ashley C ^b   Fooks, Anthony R ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; LYSSAVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; PTEROPUS; SPECIES; SRI LANKA; VIRUS GENOME; ANIMAL; BAT; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; RHABDOVIRUS INFECTION; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; FEMALE; GENOME, VIRAL; LYSSAVIRUS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; RHABDOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SRI LANKA;

EID: 84978699116     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2208.151986     Document Type: Article

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