Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
21
March
2016
Publication date Collection: 2016
Volume: 11
Issue: 3
Electronic Location Identifier: e0152077
Affiliations
[1
]Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria,
South Africa
[2
]National Institute for Communicable Disease, National Health Laboratory Services,
Johannesburg, South Africa
[3
]University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
[4
]Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, Pretoria, South Africa
[5
]University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
[6
]AfricanBats, Kloofsig, South Africa
[7
]Centre for Wildlife Management, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
[8
]University of Swaziland, Kwaluseni, Swaziland
University of Western Ontario, CANADA
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Conceived and designed the experiments: MD WM. Performed the experiments: MD MAT JW
TK ECJS AM WM. Analyzed the data: MD MAT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis
tools: WM. Wrote the paper: MD MAT JW TK ECJS LHN AM WM.
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-16-04687
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0152077
PMC ID: 4801393
PubMed ID: 26999518
SO-VID: 42b33213-85d0-4c1a-ad7f-49e34f9813e3
Copyright © © 2016 Dietrich et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
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the original author and source are credited.
This work is based on the research supported in part by a number of grants from the
National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa (Grant UID: 78566 (NRF RISP grant
for the ABI3500) and Grant UID 91496 and 92524) and the Poliomyelitis Research Foundation
(PRF) (Grant number 12/14). MD’s postdoctoral fellowship is funded by the National
Research Foundation, South Africa (NRF – N00595).
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Animals
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Vertebrates
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