Identification of five major and two minor genotypes of varicella-zoster virus strains: A practical two-amplicon approach used to genotype clinical isolates in Australia and New Zealand

Journal of Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 12758-12765

  Loparev, Vladimir N ^a   Rubtcova, Elena N ^b   Bostik, Vanda ^b   Govil, Dhwani ^a   Birch, Christopher J ^c   Druce, Julian D ^c   Schmid, D Scott ^b,e   Croxson, Margaret C ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR PREPAREDNESS DETECTION AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^c VICTORIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES REFERENCE LABORATORY   (Australia)

^d AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^e CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TWO AMPLICON TYPING; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

AUSTRALIA; DNA, VIRAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HERPES ZOSTER; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 3;

EID: 36349011992     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01145-07     Document Type: Article

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