Characterization of infectious Murray Valley encephalitis virus derived from a stably cloned genome-length cDNA

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 3115-3125

  Hurrelbrink, Robert J ^a   Nestorowicz, Ann ^b   McMinn, Peter C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PLASMID VECTOR; POLYADENYLIC ACID; RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN BHK; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MURRAY VALLEY ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; CANINE DISTEMPER VIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS; MURRAY VALLEY ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0032726911     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-80-12-3115     Document Type: Article

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