TT virus infection in nonhuman primates and characterization of the viral genome: Identification of Simian TT virus isolates

Journal of Virology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1549-1553

  Kenji, Abe ^a   Inami, Tomoko ^a   Ishikawa, Koichi ^a   Nakamura, Shin ^b   Goto, Shunji ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMIAN VIRUS; TORQUE TENO VIRUS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA VIRUSES; DNA, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HAPLORHINI; HEPATITIS VIRUSES; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMATE DISEASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 0343314922     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.74.3.1549-1553.2000     Document Type: Article

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