West Nile virus envelope proteins: Nucleotide sequence analysis of strains differing in mouse neuroinvasiveness

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 79, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2375-2380

  Chambers, Thomas J ^a   Halevy, Menachem ^b   Nestorowicz, Ann ^c,d   Rice, Charles M ^c   Lustig, Shlomo ^b  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ISRAEL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; VIRUS ATTENUATION; VIRUS MUTATION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALIA; ARBOVIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS; INVERTEBRATA; RNA VIRUSES; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 0031714337     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-79-10-2375     Document Type: Article

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