Identification of a pegivirus (GB virus-like virus) that infects horses

Journal of Virology

Volumn 87, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 7185-7190

  Kapoor, Amit ^a   Simmonds, Peter ^b   Cullen, John M ^c   Scheel, Troels K H ^d,e,i   Medina, Jan L ^a   Giannitti, Federico ^f   Nishiuchi, Eiko ^d   Brock, Kenny V ^g   Burbelo, Peter D ^h   Rice, Charles M ^d   Lipkin, W Ian ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; EQUINE PEGIVIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HORSE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIREMIA; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; FLAVIVIRIDAE; FLAVIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES; VIREMIA;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; EQUIDAE;

EID: 84878547582     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00324-13     Document Type: Article

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