A variant of variola virus, characterized by changes in polypeptide and endonuclease profiles

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 287-290

  Dumbell, K R ^a,b   Harper, L ^b   Buchan, A ^b   Douglass, N J ^b   Bedson, H S ^b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA MARKER; ENDONUCLEASE; POLYPEPTIDE; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA CLEAVAGE; HUMAN; INDIA; PAKISTAN; SMALLPOX VIRUS; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; INDIA; PAKISTAN; SMALLPOX; VARIATION (GENETICS); VARIOLA VIRUS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0032962253     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268899002150     Document Type: Article

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