Detection and characterization of measles virus strains in cases of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis in Croatia

Virus Research

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-56

  Forčić, Dubravko ^a   Baričević, Marijana ^a   Zgorelec, Renata ^a   Kružić, Vjekoslava ^b   Kaić, Bernard ^b   Della Marina, Branka Marušić ^c   Šojat, Ljerka Cvitanović ^d   Tešović, Goran ^e   Mažuran, Renata ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (Croatia)

^b Zagreb Institute of Public Health   (Croatia)

^c Croatia   (Croatia)

^d SESTRE MILOSRDNICE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

^e Croatia   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Measles genotype; Mutations; SSPE

Indexed keywords

M PROTEIN, SSPE VIRUS; MATRIX PROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN, MEASLES VIRUS; VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

BRAIN; BRAIN TISSUE; CHEMISTRY; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNIZATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MEASLES VIRUS; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOP CODON; SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS STRAIN;

MEASLES VIRUS;

EID: 0347480213     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2003.10.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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