Bunyavirus Reverse Genetics and Applications to Studying Interactions with Host Cells

Reverse Genetics of RNA Viruses: Applications and Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 200-223

  Elliott, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BUNV minigenome, transfecting cells with plasmid; BUNV infected cells, 'viral factory' around Golgi complex; Bunyaviridae, Orthobunyavirus, Hantavirus, Nairovirus, Phlebovirus, Tospovirus; Bunyavirus replication attenuation, by noncoding sequence modification; Bunyavirus replication cycle, and other negative sense RNA viruses; Bunyavirus reverse genetics; Bunyavirus reverse genetics and applications, host cell interaction; Minigenome for negative sense viruses, and cytoplasmic RNA; The hantaviruses, CCHFV, or the tospoviruses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875673823     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118405338.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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