Tickborne encephalitis virus, Norway and Denmark

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1136-1138

  Skarpaas, Tone ^a,e,f   Golovljova, Irina ^b,c   Vene, Sirkka ^b   Ljøstad, Unn ^a   Sjursen, Haakon ^d   Plyusnin, Alexander ^b,e   Lundkvist, Åke ^b  

^a Sørlandet Hospital   (Norway)

^b Swedish Institute of Infectious Diseases   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH DEVELOPMENT   (Estonia)

^d HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f Service Box 416 ^*  (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; DENMARK; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HUMAN; NORWAY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERUM; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS;

EID: 33745938084     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1207.051567     Document Type: Article

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