The Lassa fever virus L gene: Nucleotide sequence, comparison, and precipitation of a predicted 250 kDa protein with monospecific antiserum

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 547-551

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

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

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; VIRUS ENZYME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARENAVIRUS; ARTICLE; BUNYAVIRUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LASSA VIRUS; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOMYXOVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; VIRUS CLASSIFICATION; VIRUS GENE;

EID: 0031052955     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-78-3-547     Document Type: Article

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