A pandemic strain of calicivirus threatens rabbit industries in the Americas

Virology Journal

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  McIntosh, Michael T ^a   Behan, Shawn C ^a   Mohamed, Fawzi M ^a   Lu, Zhiqiang ^a   Moran, Karen E ^a   Burrage, Thomas G ^a   Neilan, John G ^a   Ward, Gordon B ^a   Botti, Giuliana ^b   Capucci, Lorenzo ^b   Metwally, Samia A ^a  

^a PLUM ISLAND ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER   (United States)

^b ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA LOMBARDIA E DELL EMILIA ROMAGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; PROTEIN VP60; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRAL PROTEIN 60, RABBIT HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE VIRUS; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALICIVIRUS; CHINA; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE SEQUENCE; INDUSTRY; INOCULATION; LIVER NECROSIS; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANDEMIC; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; RABBIT; RABBIT HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE; SUDDEN DEATH; UNITED STATES; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLEEDING; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LAGOVIRUS; LIVER; LUNG; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT DISEASE; VIROLOGY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; CALICIVIRIDAE; LAGOVIRUS; MIRIDAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RABBIT HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE VIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENOME, VIRAL; HEMORRHAGE; HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE VIRUS, RABBIT; INDIANA; LIVER; LUNG; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NECROSIS; PHYLOGENY; RABBITS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT DISEASES; VIRAL STRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 37349056340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1743422X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-422X-4-96     Document Type: Article

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