Five new or recently discovered (GBV-A) virus species are indigenous to new world monkeys and may constitute a separate genus of the Flaviviridae

Virology

Volumn 229, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 429-436

  Bukh, Jens ^a   Apgar, Carl L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAVIVIRUS; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

ANIMALIA; AOTUS TRIVIRGATUS; CALLITHRIX JACCHUS; FLAVIVIRIDAE; FLAVIVIRUS; GBV-A-LIKE VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS GB VIRUS A; HEPATITIS GB VIRUS B; PLATYRRHINI; SAGUINUS IMPERATOR; SAGUINUS LABIATUS; SAGUINUS MYSTAX; SAGUINUS NIGRICOLLIS; SAGUINUS OEDIPUS; UNIDENTIFIED AGENTS;

EID: 0031575748     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.1997.8461     Document Type: Article

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