A Randomized Controlled Trial of Interventions to Impede Date Palm Sap Contamination by Bats to Prevent Nipah Virus Transmission in Bangladesh

BACKGROUND: Drinking raw date palm sap is a risk factor for human Nipah virus (NiV) infection. Fruit bats, the natural reservoir of NiV, commonly contaminate raw sap with saliva by licking date palm’s sap producing surface. We evaluated four types of physical barriers that may prevent bats from cont...

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Autores principales: Khan, Salah Uddin, Gurley, Emily S., Hossain, M. Jahangir, Nahar, Nazmun, Sharker, M. A. Yushuf, Luby, Stephen P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3414453/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22905160
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042689

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3414453/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22905160
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042689

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