Complete genome characterization of Rocio virus (Flavivirus: Flaviviridae), a Brazilian flavivirus isolated from a fatal case of encephalitis during an epidemic in São Paulo state

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2237-2246

  Medeiros, Daniele B A ^a   Nunes, Márcio R T ^a   Vasconcelos, Pedro F C ^a   Chang, Gwong Jen J ^b   Kuno, Goro ^b  

^a INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; FLAVIVIRUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRAIT; HUMAN; ILHEUS VIRUS; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; ROCIO VIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BRAZIL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; FLAVIVIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTIONS; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRAL PROTEINS;

FLAVIVIRIDAE; FLAVIVIRUS; ILHEUS VIRUS; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; ROCIO VIRUS;

EID: 34547581387     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.82883-0     Document Type: Article

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