Hantaviruses: Genome structure, expression and evolution

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 77, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2677-2687

  Plyusnin, Alexander ^a   Vapalahti, Olli ^a   Vaheri, Antti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HANTAVIRUS; HOST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER;

HANTAVIRUS;

EID: 0029849806     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-77-11-2677     Document Type: Review

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