VZV molecular epidemiology

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 342, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 15-42

  Breuer, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VARICELLA ZOSTER VACCINE;

ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CLADISTICS; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION CONTROL; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFECTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS LATENCY; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS REACTIVATION; VIRUS RECOMBINATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; CHICKENPOX; GENETICS; REVIEW; VIROLOGY;

HERPESVIRIDAE; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 3;

CHICKENPOX; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HERPES ZOSTER; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS;

EID: 79952049721     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/82-2010-9     Document Type: Article

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