Molecular diversity and evolutionary history of rabies virus strains circulating in the Balkans

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2171-2180

  McElhinney, L M ^a,b   Marston, D A ^a   Freuling, C M ^c   Cragg, W ^a   Stankov, S ^d   Lalosevic D ^d   Lalosevic V ^d   Muller T ^c   Fooks, A R ^a,b  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^d Pasteur Institute Novi Sad   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN; VIRUS NUCLEOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; EPIZOOTIOLOGY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RABIES VIRUS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EUROPE; GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEINS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

RABIES VIRUS;

EID: 80051778038     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.032748-0     Document Type: Article

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