Genetic determinants of Sindbis virus neuroinvasiveness

Journal of Virology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 2636-2646

  Dubuisson, Jean ^a,c   Lustig, Shlomo ^b   Ruggli, Nicolas ^a   Akov, Yair ^b   Rice, Charles M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ISRAEL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; INOCULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SINDBIS VIRUS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS PLAQUE; VIRUS RECOMBINANT;

EID: 0030891499     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.4.2636-2646.1997     Document Type: Article

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