Sequence analysis of the leftward end of simian varicella virus (EcoRI-I fragment) reveals the presence of an 8-bp repeat flanking the unique long segment and an 881-bp open-reading frame that is absent in the varicella zoster virus genome

Virology

Volumn 274, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 420-428

  Mahalingam, Ravi ^a   White, Tiffany ^a   Wellish, Mary ^a   Gilden, Donald H ^a   Soike, Kenneth ^b   Gray, Wayne L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Simian varicella virus; Varicella zoster virus

Indexed keywords

RNA; VIRUS DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKENPOX; CONTROLLED STUDY; HERPES ZOSTER; MOLECULAR CLONING; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIMIAN VARICELLA VIRUS; SIMIAN VIRUS; SPINAL GANGLION; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS LATENCY;

EID: 0034284980     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.2000.0465     Document Type: Article

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