Long-term survival of New Zealand rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus RNA in wild rabbits, revealed by RT-PCR and phylogenetic analysis

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3079-3086

  Forrester, Naomi L ^a   Boag, B ^b   Moss, S R ^a   Turner, S L ^a   Trout, R C ^b   White, P J ^c,d   Hudson, P J ^c,e   Gould, E A ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Stirling ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; CALICIVIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FATALITY; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHY; LIVER BIOPSY; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL TIME; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS SURVIVAL; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; GENOME, VIRAL; HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE VIRUS, RABBIT; LIVER; PHYLOGENY; RABBITS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALIA; CALICIVIRIDAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RABBIT HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0242320346     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.19213-0     Document Type: Article

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