Generation of transmissible hepatitis C virions from a molecular clone in chimpanzees

Virology

Volumn 256, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 36-44

  Hong, Zhi ^a   Beaudet Miller, Michele ^a   Lanford, Robert E ^b   Guerra, Bernadette ^b   Wright Minogue, Jacquelyn ^a   Skelton, Angela ^a   Baroudy, Bahige M ^a   Reyes, Gregory R ^a   Lau, Johnson Y N ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRION; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033616519     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.1999.9603     Document Type: Article

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