Genetic variability of the M genome segment of clinical and environmental Toscana virus strains

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1288-1294

  Venturi, Giulietta ^a   Ciccozzi, Massimo ^a   Montieri, Stefania ^a   Bartoloni, Alessandro ^b   Francisci, Daniela ^c   Nicoletti, Loredana ^a   Fortuna, Claudia ^a   Marongiu, Luigi ^a   Rezza, Giovanni ^a   Ciufolini, Maria Grazia ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN GN; M PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHLEBOVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TOSCANA VIRUS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BASE SEQUENCE; BUNYAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CHIROPTERA; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOME, VIRAL; GEOGRAPHY; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SANDFLY FEVER NAPLES VIRUS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TIME FACTORS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ARTHROPODA; TOSCANA VIRUS;

EID: 34047170313     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.82330-0     Document Type: Article

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