A new hepadnavirus endemic in arctic ground squirrels in Alaska

Journal of Virology

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 4210-4219

  Testut, Patrice ^a   Renard, Claire Angélique ^a   Terradillos, Olivier ^a   Vitvitski Trepo, Ludmila ^b   Tekaia, Fredj ^a   Degott, Claude ^c   Blake, John ^d   Boyer, Bert ^d   Buendia, Marie Annick ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b Retrovirus Humains Pathologies A   (France)

^c BEAUJON HOSPITAL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA VIRUS; FATTY LIVER; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS VIRUS; LIVER ADENOMA; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUIRREL;

EID: 0030007645     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.7.4210-4219.1996     Document Type: Article

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