Infectivity variation and genetic diversity among strains of Western equine encephalitis virus

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 87, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2353-2361

  Nagata, Les P ^a   Hu, Wei Gang ^a   Parker, Michael ^b   Chau, Damon ^a   Rayner, George A ^a   Schmaltz, Fay L ^a   Wong, Jonathan P ^a  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CALIFORNIA ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LETHALITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TIME OF DEATH; VIRUS CLASSIFICATION; VIRUS EXAMINATION; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WESTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ALPHAVIRUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, WESTERN EQUINE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, EQUINE; FEMALE; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIRAL STRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

WESTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS;

EID: 33746861903     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.81815-0     Document Type: Article

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