Molecular evidence of St. Louis encephalitis virus infection in patients in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 349-351

  Valinotto, Laura E ^a,b   Barrero, Paola R ^a,b   Viegas, Mariana ^a,b   Alvarez López, María C ^a   Mistchenko, Alicia S ^a,c  

^a HOSPITAL DE NIÑOS RICARDO GUTIÉRREZ   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c Centro Científico y Tecnológico Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Molecular typing; Patients; St. Louis encephalitis virus

Indexed keywords

NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 5; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ST LOUIS FLAVIVIRUS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TYPING;

ADULT; ARGENTINA; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, ST. LOUIS; ENCEPHALITIS, ST. LOUIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84863872704     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: 18735967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2012.04.005     Document Type: Article

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