Genetic heterogeneity and subtyping of human Hepatitis E virus isolates from Uruguay

Virus Research

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 364-370

  Mirazo, Santiago ^a   Ramos, Natalia ^a   Russi, José Carlos ^b   Arbiza, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b British Hospital Montevideo   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Hepatitis E virus; Molecular epidemiology; South America; Subtyping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; URUGUAY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS SHEDDING;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; URUGUAY;

ANIMALIA; HEPATITIS E VIRUS;

EID: 84876871602     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: 18727492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2013.01.005     Document Type: Article

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