Determination of the geographical origin of unidentified cadavers based on geographical differences in genotype of varicella-zoster virus

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 903-908

  Inoue, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Motani Saitoh, Hisako ^a   Sakurada, Koichi ^c   Ikegaya, Hiroshi ^d   Yajima, Daisuke ^a   Hayakawa, Mutsumi ^a   Sato, Yayoi ^a   Otsuka, Katsura ^a   Kobayashi, Kazuhiro ^a   Nagasawa, Sayaka ^a   Iwase, Hirotaro ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Forensic Science Laboratory   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF POLICE SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Forensic science; Human trigeminal ganglia; Medico legal autopsy; Polymerase chain reaction; VZV DNA; VZV latency

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CADAVER; CHILD; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CADAVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; GREAT BRITAIN; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONGOLIA; PAKISTAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRIGEMINAL GANGLION; VIRUS LATENCY; YOUNG ADULT;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 3; RHODOCOCCUS RHODOCHROUS;

EID: 77951012578     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: 10969071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.21666     Document Type: Article

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