Avian and human metapneumovirus

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1102, Issue , 2007, Pages 66-85

  Broor, Shobha ^a   Bharaj, Preeti ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Avian pneumovirus; Human metapneumovirus; Nucleotide; Pathogenesis; Sequence identity

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DIHYDROLIPOAMIDE DEHYDROGENASE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MATRIX PROTEIN; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 1; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 2; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PROTEIN F; PROTEIN M2; PROTEIN SULFHYDRYL GROUP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCINE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; AVIAN PNEUMOVIRUS; BIRD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENUS; HOST; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOMODULATION; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PARAMYXOVIRUS; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMOVIRINAE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS ADSORPTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BIRD DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; VIRUS INTERNALIZATION;

AVES; AVIAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; PNEUMOVIRUS; TURKEY RHINOTRACHEITIS VIRUS;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS INTERNALIZATION;

EID: 34250358287     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1408.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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