Characterization of virulent West Nile virus Kunjin strain, Australia, 2011

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 792-800

  Frost, Melinda J ^a   Zhang, Jing ^a   Edmonds, Judith H ^b   Prow, Natalie A ^b   Gu, Xingnian ^a   Davis, Rodney ^a   Hornitzky, Christine ^a   Arzey, Kathleen E ^a   Finlaison, Deborah ^a   Hick, Paul ^a   Read, Andrew ^a   Hobson Peters, Jody ^b   May, Fiona J ^b   Doggett, Stephen L ^c   Haniotis, John ^c   Russell, Richard C ^c   Hall, Roy A ^b   Khromykh, Alexander A ^b   Kirkland, Peter D ^a  

^a NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; AUSTRALIA; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE SEQUENCE; HORSE; MOSQUITO; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS PLAQUE; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CRICETINAE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENES, VIRAL; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MICE; NEW SOUTH WALES; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; VIRULENCE; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84859811124     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1805.111720     Document Type: Review

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