Novel approach for genotyping varicella-zoster virus strains from Germany

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3540-3545

  Schmidt Chanasit, Jonas ^a   Stürmer, Martin ^a   Hahn, Anke ^a   Schäd, Susanne G ^b   Gross, Gerd ^b   Ulrich, Rainer G ^c   Heckel, Gerald ^d   Doerr, Hans Wilhelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; WILD TYPE;

GENOTYPE; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 3;

EID: 36349008235     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00979-07     Document Type: Article

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