The molecular biology of West Nile virus: A new invader of the Western hemisphere

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue , 2002, Pages 371-402

  Brinton, Margo A ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cis acting sequences; Conserved RNA structures; RNA protein interactions; Virus host interactions; WNV proteins; WNV replication

Indexed keywords

POLYPROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

EPIDEMIC; FLAVIVIRUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS REPLICATION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, VIRAL; UNITED STATES; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

AVES; EQUIDAE; FLAVIVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 0036407156     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.56.012302.160654     Document Type: Review

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