Analysis of Puumala hantavirus in a bank vole population in northern Finland: Evidence for co-circulation of two genetic lineages and frequent reassortment between strains

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1923-1931

  Razzauti, Maria ^a,b   Plyusnina, Angelina ^a   Sironen, Tarja ^a   Henttonen, Heikki ^b   Pyusnin, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; FINLAND; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REASSORTMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUUMALA VIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARVICOLINAE; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER;

CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; PUUMALA VIRUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FINLAND; GENOTYPE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HUMANS; LUNG; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PUUMALA VIRUS; REASSORTANT VIRUSES; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 69449095191     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.011304-0     Document Type: Article

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