Genetic variability of measles virus in acute and persistent infections

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 269-276

  Kühne, Mirjam ^a   Brown, David W G ^a   Jin, Li ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Measles virus; Paramyxovirus; RNA virus; SSPE; Substitution rate; Virus evolution

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; MEASLES VACCINE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; URACIL;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; MEASLES VIRUS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA VIRUS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS MUTATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

MEASLES VIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 33646814776     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2005.08.003     Document Type: Article

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