Completion of the Lassa fever virus sequence and identification of a RING finger open reading frame at the L RNA 5' end

Virology

Volumn 235, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 414-418

  Djavani, Mahmoud ^a   Lukashevich, Igor S ^b   Sanchez, Anthony ^c   Nichol, Stuart T ^c   Salvato, Maria S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Research Institute for Epidemiology & Microbiology RIEM   (Belarus)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARENAVIRUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE STRUCTURE; LASSA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; VERO CELL;

ARENAVIRUS; LASSA FEVER VIRUS; LASSA VIRUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0030819117     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.1997.8722     Document Type: Article

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