The genome of molluscum contagiosum virus: Analysis and comparison with other poxviruses

Virology

Volumn 233, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-42

  Senkevich, Tatiana G ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^a   Bugert, Joachim J ^a,b   Darai, Gholamreza ^b   Moss, Bernard ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST RESISTANCE; LEPORIPOXVIRUS; MOLLUSCIPOXVIRUS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; POXVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION;

LEPORIPOXVIRUS; MOLLUSCIPOXVIRUS; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM VIRUS; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; POXVIRIDAE;

EID: 0030851338     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.1997.8607     Document Type: Article

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