Arenavirus variations due to host-specific adaptation

Viruses

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 241-278

  Zapata, Juan C ^a   Salvato, Maria S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arenavirus; Co evolution; LCMV Armstrong; LCMV Clone13; Mopeia Lassa reassortant ML29; Mutation; Viral population

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN;

ANTIGENICITY; ARENAVIRUS INFECTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; REVIEW; RNA REPLICATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIREMIA; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS ENTRY; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IMMUNITY; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ARENAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; ARENAVIRUS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HOST SPECIFICITY; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALIA; ARENAVIRUS; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; OLD WORLD ARENAVIRUSES;

EID: 84872845679     PISSN: 19994915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v5010241     Document Type: Review

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