Nonconsensus west nile virus genomes arising during mosquito infection suppress pathogenesis and modulate virus fitness in vivo

Journal of Virology

Volumn 85, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 12605-12613

  Ebel, Gregory D ^a,c   Fitzpatrick, Kelly A ^a   Lim, Pei Yin ^b,c   Bennett, Corey J ^c   Deardorff, Eleanor R ^a   Kramer, Greta V S Jerzak ^c   Zhou, Yangsheng ^c   Shi, Pei Yong ^c   Bernard, Kristen A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; ASPARTIC ACID; BETA INTERFERON; E GLYCOPROTEIN; INTERFERON; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 3; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 4; RNA HELICASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BRAIN; CHICKEN; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HOST RANGE; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; LYMPH NODE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE GENETICS; SKIN; SPINAL CORD; SPLEEN; VIRAL TROPISM; VIREMIA; VIRUS ATTENUATION; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS PLAQUE; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHICKENS; CRICETINAE; CULICIDAE; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, VIRAL; INTERFERONS; KIDNEY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MUTATION; RNA HELICASES; RNA, VIRAL; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; VERO CELLS; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

AVES; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; GALLUS GALLUS; MUS; RNA VIRUSES; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 81255184273     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.05637-11     Document Type: Article

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