Identification of a new strain of hepatitis E virus from an outbreak in Namibia in 1995

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 89-95

  Maila, Hazel T ^a   Bowyer, Sheila M ^a   Swanepoel, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HEPATITIS NON A NON B; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEXICO; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NAMIBIA; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERODIAGNOSIS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; WATER SUPPLY;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHILD; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NAMIBIA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

HEPATITIS E VIRUS; NON-A, NON-B HEPATITIS VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 1642544585     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.19587-0     Document Type: Article

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