Nucleotide sequence analysis of a 30-kilobase-pair region of human herpesvirus-6B (HHV-6B) genome and strain-specific variations in major immediate-early genes

Virus Research

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-14

  Kosuge, Haruhiko ^a,c   Isegawa, Yuji ^b   Yamanishi, Koichi ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Exanthem subitum; HHV 6; PCR; Virus transmission

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; GENOME, VIRAL; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HERPESVIRUS 6, HUMAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031448884     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1702(97)00099-3     Document Type: Article

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