Genetic characterization and molecular clock analyses of the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus from human and ticks in India, 2010-2011

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 223-231

  Yadav, Pragya D ^a   Cherian, Sarah S ^a   Zawar, Divya ^a   Kokate, Prasad ^a   Gunjikar, Rashmi ^a   Jadhav, Santosh ^a   Mishra, Akhilesh C ^a   Mourya, Devendra T ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever virus; India; Molecular clock; Phylogeny; Reassortment; Sequencin

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

AFGHANISTAN; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC REASSORTMENT; HUMAN; INDIA; MIDDLE EAST; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NAIRO VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTH ASIA; TICK; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, VIRAL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; HUMANS; INDIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TICKS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84873153700     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2012.10.005     Document Type: Article

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