Molecular characterization of two Rocio flavivirus strains isolated during the encephalitis epidemic in São Paulo State, Brazil and the development of a one-step RT-PCR assay for diagnosis

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 89-94

  Coimbra, Terezinha Lisieux Moraes ^a   Santos, Raimundo N ^a   Petrella, Selma ^a   Nagasse Sugahara, Teresa Keico ^a   Castrignano, Silvana Beres ^a   Santos, Cecília L Simões ^a  

^a INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Disease diagnosis; Phylogenetic analysis; Rocio virus; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; ENCEPHALITIS; EPIDEMIC; FLAVIVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

BASE SEQUENCE; BRAZIL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA PRIMERS; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; FLAVIVIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 44349153621     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: 16789946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652008000200005     Document Type: Article

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