Genetic characterization of wild type measles virus isolated in Croatia during the 2003-2004 outbreak

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 307-312

  Forcic, Dubravko ^a   Ivancic, J ^a   Baricevic, M ^a   Mahovlic, V ^b   Tesovic, G ^b   Bozinovic, D ^b   Margan, I Gjenero ^c   Mazuran, R ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (Croatia)

^b Croatia   (Croatia)

^c Zagreb Institute of Public Health   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Genotype; Hemagglutinin; Measles virus; Nucleoprotein

Indexed keywords

HEMAGGLUTININ; NUCLEOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CROATIA; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; MEASLES VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

CROATIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENES, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRAL PROTEINS;

MEASLES VIRUS;

EID: 11144225432     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.20272     Document Type: Article

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