Evidence of recombination among early-vaccination era measles virus strains

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Schierup, Mikkel H ^a   Mordhorst, Carl H ^b   Muller, Claude P ^c   Christensen, Laurids S ^d  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^c LABORATOIRE NATIONAL DE SANTÉ   (Luxembourg)

^d Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES VIRUS;

LIVE VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EPIDEMIC; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIRUS GENOME;

BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, VIRAL; HEMAGGLUTININS, VIRAL; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE; MEASLES VIRUS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VACCINES, ATTENUATED;

EID: 27644550521     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-5-52     Document Type: Article

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