Genome analysis of the new human polyomaviruses

Reviews in Medical Virology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 354-377

  Van Ghelue, Marijke ^a   Khan, Mahmud Tareq Hassan ^b   Ehlers, Bernhard ^c   Moens, Ugo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA; VIRUS LARGE T ANTIGEN; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA; VIRUS SMALL T ANTIGEN;

BK VIRUS; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; JC VIRUS; MERKEL CELL POLYOMAVIRUS; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYOMA VIRUS; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; REVIEW; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DISEASE; TRICHODYSPLASIA SPINULOSA; TRICHODYSPLASIA SPINULOSA ASSOCIATED POLYOMAVIRUS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYOMAVIRUS; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84868572405     PISSN: 10529276     EISSN: 10991654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rmv.1711     Document Type: Review

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