Analysis of Puumala hantavirus genome in patients with nephropathia epidemica and rodent carriers from the sites of infection

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 397-405

  Plyusnin, Alexander ^a   Mustonen, Jukka ^b   Asikainen, Kari ^a   Plyusnina, Angelina ^a   Niemimaa, Jukka ^c   Henttonen, Heikki ^c   Vaheri, Anttii ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bank vole and human hantavirus sequences; Comparison

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HANTAVIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFECTION RISK; PUUMALA VIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS STRAIN; VOLE;

CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; HANTAVIRUS; MURIDAE; NEPHROPATHIA; NEPHROPATHIA EPIDEMICA; PUUMALA VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032882307     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9071(199911)59:3<397::aid-jmv21>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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