The U3 promoter and the nef gene of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) smmPBj1.9 do not confer acute pathogenicity upon SIVagm

Journal of Virology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 3446-3450

  Wagener, Stefan ^a,b   Dittmar, Matthias T ^a,c   Beer, Brigitte ^a   König, Renate ^a   Plesker, Roland ^a   Norley, Stephen ^a   Kurth, Reinhard ^a   Cichutek, Klaus ^a  

^a PAUL EHRLICH INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL VIROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; GENOME; HELPER CELL; LEUKOCYTE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0031947343     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.72.4.3446-3450.1998     Document Type: Article

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