Detection strategies of tick-borne encephalitis virus in Swedish Ixodes ricinus reveal evolutionary characteristics of emerging tick-borne flaviviruses

Archives of Virology

Volumn 152, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1027-1034

  Melik, W ^a,b   Nilsson, A S ^b   Johansson, Magnus ^a  

^a School of Life Sciences Södertörn University   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWEDEN; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VIROLOGY;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; IXODES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWEDEN; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

FLAVIVIRUS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 34247481383     PISSN: 03048608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00705-006-0922-9     Document Type: Article

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