Enumeration of an extremely high particle-to-PFU ratio for varicella-zoster virus

Journal of Virology

Volumn 83, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 6917-6921

  Carpenter, John E ^a   Henderson, Ernesto P ^a   Grose, Charles ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; MONOLAYER CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS REPLICATION; CELL CULTURE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; VIRION; VIRUS CULTURE;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 3;

CELLS, CULTURED; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; VIRION; VIRUS CULTIVATION;

EID: 67449093074     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00081-09     Document Type: Article

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