Endotheliotropic elephant herpesvirus, the first betaherpesvirus with a thymidine kinase gene

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 87, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2781-2789

  Ehlers, Bernhard ^a   Dural, Güzin ^a   Marschall, Manfred ^b   Schregel, Vera ^b   Goltz, Michael ^a   Hentschke, Jochen ^c  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c Institut fur Lebensmittel   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYMIDINE KINASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BETAHERPESVIRINAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEPHANT; ELEPHANTID HERPESVIRUS 1; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 7; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; ELEPHANTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HEMORRHAGIC DISORDERS; HERPESVIRIDAE; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; THYMIDINE KINASE;

ELEPHANTID HERPESVIRUS 1; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS; HERPESVIRIDAE; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 5; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 7; LOXODONTA; LOXODONTA AFRICANA;

EID: 33749051449     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.81977-0     Document Type: Article

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