Genetic analysis of wild-type Dobrava hantavirus in Slovenia: Co-existence of two distinct genetic lineages within the same natural focus

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1747-1755

  Avsic Zupanc, Tatjana ^a   Nemirov, Kirill ^c   Petrovec, Miro ^a   Trilar, Tomi ^b   Poljak, Mario ^a   Vaheri, Antti ^c   Plyusnin, Alexander ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b SLOVENIAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTONIA; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HANTAVIRUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SLOVAKIA; SLOVENIA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALIA; APODEMUS AGRARIUS; APODEMUS FLAVICOLLIS; DNA VIRUSES; HANTAVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0033917046     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-81-7-1747     Document Type: Article

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