Genetic analysis of West Nile virus isolates from US blood donors during 2002-2005

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 292-297

  Tang, Yanlin ^a   Liu, Bin ^a   Hapip, C Anne ^a   Xu, Dan ^a   Fang, Chyang T ^a  

^a AMERICAN RED CROSS   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood donor; Evolution rate; Genomic sequence; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS ISOLATION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

BLOOD; BLOOD DONORS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, VIRAL; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; POINT MUTATION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UNITED STATES; VIRAL PROTEINS; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 53749100397     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2008.08.004     Document Type: Article

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