Increasing appearance of reassortant influenza B virus in Taiwan from 2002 to 2005

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2705-2713

  Tsai, Huey Pin ^a   Wang, Hsuan Chen ^b   Kiang, David ^c   Huang, Sheng Wen ^d   Kuo, Pin Hwa ^a   Liu, Ching Chuan ^a,b   Su, Ih Jen ^b   Wang, Jen Ren ^a,b,d,e  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

^c VIRAL AND RICKETTSIAL DISEASE LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMAGGLUTININ; SIALIDASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REASSORTMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAIWAN; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; HEMAGGLUTININ GLYCOPROTEINS, INFLUENZA VIRUS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA B VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; NEURAMINIDASE; PHYLOGENY; REASSORTANT VIRUSES; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TAIWAN;

INFLUENZA B VIRUS;

EID: 33747158440     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02694-05     Document Type: Article

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