Nipah virus: A recently emergent deadly paramyxovirus

Science

Volumn 288, Issue 5470, 2000, Pages 1432-1435

  Chua, K B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MALAYA MEDICAL CENTRE   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENCEPHALITIS; HENDRA VIRUS; NIPAH VIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; GENES, VIRAL; GIANT CELLS; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOCAPSID; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PARAMYXOVIRINAE; PHYLOGENY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SINGAPORE; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; VASCULITIS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

HENDRA VIRUS; NIPAH VIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0034717054     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5470.1432     Document Type: Article

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