Characterization of a sandfly fever Sicilian virus isolated during a sandfly fever epidemic in Turkey

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 264-269

  Çarhan, Ahmet ^a   Uyar, Yavuz ^a   Özkaya, Etem ^a   Ertek, Mustafa ^a   Dobler, Gerhard ^b   Dilcher, Meik ^c   Wang, Yongjie ^c   Spiegel, Martin ^c   Hufert, Frank ^c   Weidmann, Manfred ^c  

^a Refik Saydam National Public Health Agency   (Turkey)

^b Institute for Microbiology of the Armed Force   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diagnostics for Phleboviruses; Phlebotumus; Phlebovirus; Sandfly fever virus

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; RIFT VALLEY FEVER BUNYAVIRUS; SANDFLY FEVER; SANDFLY FEVER CYPRUS VIRUS; SANDFLY FEVER SICILIAN VIRUS; SANDFLY FEVER TURKEY VIRUS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VIRUS; VIRUS ISOLATION; BLOOD; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHLEBOTOMUS FEVER; PHLEBOVIRUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TURKEY; VIROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHLEBOTOMUS FEVER; PHLEBOVIRUS; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954660080     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2010.05.011     Document Type: Article

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