Naturally occurring orthopoxviruses: Potential for recombination with vaccine vectors

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2542-2547

  Sandvik, Tore ^a,b   Tryland, Morten ^a,b   Hansen, Hilde ^b   Mehl, Reidar ^c   Moens, Ugo ^b   Olsvik, Ørjan ^b   Traavik, Terje ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYMIDINE KINASE; VACCINE;

ARTICLE; COWPOX VIRUS; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS RECOMBINATION;

ANIMALIA; APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; ARANEUS; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; CLETHRIONOMYS RUFOCANUS; CLETHRIONOMYS RUTILUS; COWPOX VIRUS; DNA VIRUSES; FELIDAE; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; RODENTIA; RUTILUS; SOREX ARANEUS; SORICIDAE; VACCINIA; VACCINIA VIRUS;

EID: 0031822309     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.9.2542-2547.1998     Document Type: Article

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