Construction of an infectious cDNA clone of hepatitis E virus strain JE03-1760F that can propagate efficiently in cultured cells

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 457-462

  Yamada, Kentaro ^a,b   Takahashi, Masaharu ^a   Hoshino, Yu ^a   Takahashi, Hideyuki ^a   Ichiyama, Koji ^a   Tanaka, Toshinori ^a   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; INOCULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SUPERNATANT; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; ANIMAL; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; VIROLOGY; ZOONOSIS;

HEPATITIS E VIRUS;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, VIRAL; TRANSFECTION; ZOONOSES;

EID: 62749137216     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.007559-0     Document Type: Article

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