Novel West Nile virus lineage 1a full genome sequences from human cases of infection in north-eastern Italy, 2011

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Barzon, L ^a,b   Pacenti, M ^b   Franchin, E ^a,b   Squarzon, L ^a   Lavezzo, E ^a   Toppo, S ^a   Martello, T ^b   Cattai, M ^b   Cusinato, R ^b   Palu G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Disease outbreak; Epidemiology; Genome; Phylogeny; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; ITALY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS STRAIN; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84869098924     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12001     Document Type: Article

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