Complete nucleotide sequence of Middelburg virus, isolated from the spleen of a horse with severe clinical disease in Zimbabwe

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3078-3088

  Attoui, Houssam ^a   Sailleau, Corinne ^b   Jaafar, Fauziah Mohd ^a   Belhouchet, Mourad ^c   Biagini, Philippe ^c   Cantaloube, Jean François ^c   de Micco, Philippe ^c   Mertens, Peter ^a   Zientara, Stephan ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^b Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^c ETABLISSEMENT FRANÇAIS DU SANG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLYCOPROTEIN E1; POLYADENYLIC ACID;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALPHA VIRUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HORSE DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MIDDELBURG ALPHAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMLIKI FOREST ALPHAVIRUS; SPLEEN; STOP CODON; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS RECOMBINATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TITRATION; ZIMBABWE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALPHAVIRUS; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, TERMINATOR; GENOME, VIRAL; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA CAPS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEMLIKI FOREST VIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPLEEN; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRAL STRUCTURAL PROTEINS; ZIMBABWE;

DSRNA VIRUSES; EQUIDAE; MIDDELBURG VIRUS; SEMLIKI FOREST VIRUS;

EID: 36249022690     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.83076-0     Document Type: Article

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