Genetic analysis of the hypervariable region of the human astrovirus nsP1a coding region: Design of a new RFLP typing method

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 306-315

  Guix, Susana ^a   Caballero, Santiago ^a,b   Fuentes, Cristina ^a   Bosch, Albert ^a   Pintó, Rosa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Instituto Grifols SA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Astrovirus; Genotyping; Hypervariable region; RFLP

Indexed keywords

VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASTROVIRUS; CHILD; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA REPLICATION; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TYPING;

CHILD; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GASTROENTERITIS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MAMASTROVIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRAL LOAD; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRULENCE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ASTROVIRIDAE; HUMAN ASTROVIRUS;

EID: 37549058043     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: 10969071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.21058     Document Type: Article

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