Interstrain variation of immediate early DNA sequences and glycoprotein B genotypes in cytomegalovirus clinical isolates

Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 186, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 135-138

  Hebart, Holger ^a   Greif, Martina ^a   Krause, Helga ^a   Kanz, Lothar ^a   Jahn, Gerhard ^b   Müller, Claudia A ^a   Einsele, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytomegalovirus; Glycoprotein B; Immediate early exon 3; Interstrain variability

Indexed keywords

VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS ISOLATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, VIRAL; EXONS; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

EID: 0030663949     PISSN: 03008584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004300050055     Document Type: Article

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