Identification of a Kunjin/West Nile-like flavivirus in brains of patients with New York encephalitis

Lancet

Volumn 354, Issue 9186, 1999, Pages 1261-1262

  Briese, Thomas ^a   Jia, Xi Yu ^a   Huang, Cinnia ^c   Grady, Leo J ^c   Lipkin, W Ian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FLAVIVIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; UNITED STATES; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS;

EID: 0033539366     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)04576-6     Document Type: Article

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