Phylodynamic reconstruction reveals norovirus GII.4 epidemic expansions and their molecular determinants

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1-13

  Siebenga, J Joukje ^a,b   Lemey, Philippe ^c   Pond, Sergei L Kosakovsky ^d   Rambaut, Andrew ^e,f   Vennema, Harry ^a   Koopmans, Marion ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c REGA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; DNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NOROVIRUS; PLESIOMORPHY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RNA STRUCTURE; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CALICIVIRUS INFECTION; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DIMERIZATION; EPISTASIS; GASTROENTERITIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY;

MIRIDAE; NOROVIRUS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BAYES THEOREM; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CAPSID PROTEINS; DIMERIZATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GASTROENTERITIS; MODELS, GENETIC; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 77954057885     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000884     Document Type: Article

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