Epidemiology of human cytomegalovirus strains through comparison of methodological approaches to explore gN variants

New Microbiologica

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-10

  Pignatelli, Sara ^a   Dal Monte, Paola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Glycoprotein N; gN genotypes; Human cytomegalovirus; PCR primers

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN N, HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEWBORN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; VIROLOGY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 5;

EID: 62149130383     PISSN: 11217138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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