Spontaneous and engineered deletions in the 3' noncoding region of tick- borne encephalitis virus: Construction of highly attenuated mutants of a flavivirus

Journal of Virology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 2132-2140

  Mandl, Christian W ^a,b   Holzmann, Heidemarie ^a   Meixner, Tamara ^a   Rauscher, Susanne ^a   Stadler, Peter F ^a   Allison, Steven L ^a   Heinz, Franz X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Centre of Virology   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC STABILITY; INFECTION PREVENTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

EID: 0031887847     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.72.3.2132-2140.1998     Document Type: Article

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