Guanarito virus (Arenaviridae) isolates from endemic and outlying localities in Venezuela: Sequence comparisons among and within strains isolated from Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever patients and rodents

Virology

Volumn 266, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 189-195

  Weaver, Scott C ^a   Salas, Rosa Alba ^b   De Manzione, Nuris ^e   Fulhorst, Charles F ^a   Duno, Gloria ^c   Utrera, Antonio ^c   Mills, James N ^d   Ksiazek, Thomas G ^d   Tovar, Duilia ^b   Tesh, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b Instituto Nacional de Higiene Rafael Rangel   (Venezuela)

^c Universidad Nacional Experimental de los Llanos Ezequiel Zamora   (Venezuela)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARENAVIRUS; ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VENEZUELA; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALIA; ARENAVIRIDAE; ARENAVIRUS; DNA VIRUSES; GUANARITO VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; RODENTIA;

EID: 0034606711     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.1999.0067     Document Type: Article

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