A European field strain of bluetongue virus derived from two parental vaccine strains by genome segment reassortment

Virus Research

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-63

  Batten, Carrie A ^a   Maan, Sushila ^a   Shaw, Andrew E ^a   Maan, Narender S ^a   Mertens, Peter P C ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bluetongue; BTV; BTV vaccine; dsRNA; Orbivirus; Reassortment

Indexed keywords

BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPING; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALS; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; EUROPE; GENOME, VIRAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REASSORTANT VIRUSES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEROTYPING; SHEEP; VIRAL VACCINES;

ANIMALIA; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; BLUETONGUE VIRUS 2; MIRIDAE; ORBIVIRUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 49849101028     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2008.05.016     Document Type: Article

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