Molecular epidemiology of rabies virus in Romania provides evidence for a high degree of heterogeneity and virus diversity

Virus Research

Volumn 150, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 28-33

  Turcitu, M A ^a   Barboi, G ^a   Vuta, V ^a   Mihai, I ^a   Boncea, D ^a   Dumitrescu, F ^a   Codreanu, M D ^b   Johnson, N ^c   Fooks, A R ^c   Muller T ^d   Freuling, C M ^d  

^a National Reference Laboratory for Rabies   (Romania)

^b CAROL DAVILA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^c VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Molecular epidemiology; Nucleoprotein; Phylogeny; Rabies; Romania; Virus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABIES VIRUS; ROMANIA; VIRUS ISOLATION;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; RNA, VIRAL; ROMANIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; RABIES VIRUS;

EID: 77952205467     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2010.02.008     Document Type: Article

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