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. 2013 Dec;19(12):2064-6.
doi: 10.3201/eid1912.131076.

Bicolored white-toothed shrews as reservoir for borna disease virus, Bavaria, Germany

Manon Bourg, Sibylle Herzog, Jorge A Encarnação, Daniel Nobach, Hildburg Lange-Herbst, Markus Eickmann, Christiane Herden

Bicolored white-toothed shrews as reservoir for borna disease virus, Bavaria, Germany

Manon Bourg et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2013 Dec.
No abstract available

Keywords: Bavaria; Borna disease; Borna disease virus; Crocidura leucodon; Germany; RT-PCR; bicolored white-toothed shrews; immunohistochemical analysis; indirect immunofluorescence assay; nested PCR; reservoir; sequence analysis; viruses.

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