Detection of novel sequences related to African swine fever virus in human serum and sewage

Journal of Virology

Volumn 83, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 13019-13025

  Loh, Joy ^a   Zhao, Guoyan ^a   Presti, Rachel M ^a   Holtz, Lori R ^a   Finkbeiner, Stacy R ^a   Droit, Lindsay ^a   Villasana, Zoilmar ^a   Todd, Collin ^a   Pipas, James M ^b   Calgua, Byron ^c   Girones, Rosina ^c   Wang, David ^a   Virgin, Herbert W ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN SWINE FEVER VIRUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERUM; SEWAGE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

AFRICAN SWINE FEVER VIRUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SERUM; SEWAGE;

AFRICAN SWINE FEVER VIRUS; ASFARVIRIDAE; SUIDAE;

EID: 72849125120     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00638-09     Document Type: Article

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