Global genetic diversity of human metapneumovirus fusion gene

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1154-1157

  Boivin, Guy ^a   Mackay, Ian ^b   Sloots, Theo P ^b   Madhi, Shabir ^c   Freymuth, François ^d   Wolf, Dana ^e   Shemer Avni, Yonat ^f   Ludewick, Herbert ^c   Gray, Gregory C ^g   LeBlanc, Éric ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d CAEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^e HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^f BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^g UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; FUSION GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDIATRICS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS STRAIN;

EID: 2542564370     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1006.031097     Document Type: Article

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