Molecular characterization of the complete genome of a street rabies virus isolated in China

Virus Research

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 6-14

  Ming, Pinggang ^a,b   Du, Jialiang ^a   Tang, Qing ^a   Yan, Jiaxin ^b   Nadin Davis, Susan A ^c   Li, Hao ^a   Tao, Xiaoyan ^a   Huang, Ying ^d   Hu, Rongliang ^d   Liang, Guodong ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR VIRAL DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b Wuhan Institute of Biological Product   (China)

^c Ottawa Laboratory Fallowfield   (Canada)

^d BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Complete genome sequence; Rabies; Street virus

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHINA; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABIES VIRUS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS STRAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CHINA; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRAL PROTEINS;

RABIES VIRUS;

EID: 67349245161     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2009.02.014     Document Type: Article

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