Virulence determinants between New York 99 and Kunjin strains of West Nile virus

Virology

Volumn 414, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 63-73

  Audsley, Michelle ^a   Edmonds, Judith ^a   Liu, Wenjun ^a   Mokhonov, Vlad ^a   Mokhonova, Ekaterina ^a   Melian, Ezequeil Balmori ^a   Prow, Natalie ^a   Hall, Roy A ^a   Khromykh, Alexander A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chimeric viruses; Flavivirus; Infectious clone; Kunjin virus; Virulence factors; West nile virus

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 2; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 2A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN BHK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VERO CELL; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LETHAL DOSE 50; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, VIRAL; RODENT DISEASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRAL PLAQUE ASSAY; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

FLAVIVIRUS; KUNJIN VIRUS; MUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 79955545306     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2011.03.008     Document Type: Article

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