Isolation and characterization of two new hepatitis e virus genotype 1 strains from two mini-outbreaks in Lahore, Pakistan

Virology Journal

Volumn 8, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Iqbal, Tahir ^a,b   Idrees, Muhammad ^a,b   Ali, Liaqat ^a,b   Hussain, Abrar ^a,b   Ali, Muhammad ^a,b   Butt, Sadia ^a,b   Yousaf, Muhammad Zubair ^a,b   Sabar, Muhammad Farooq ^a,b  

^a National Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; VIRUS RNA; VIRUS VECTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYZER; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONING; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PAKISTAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RNA EXTRACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HEPATITIS E; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; VIROLOGY;

HEPATITIS E VIRUS;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAKISTAN; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 79952201746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1743422X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-422X-8-94     Document Type: Article

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