Discovery of a unique novel clade of mosquito-associated bunyaviruses

Journal of Virology

Volumn 87, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 12850-12865

  Marklewitz, Marco ^a   Zirkel, Florian ^a   Rwego, Innocent B ^b,c,d,g   Heidemann, Hanna ^a   Trippner, Pascal ^a   Kurth, Andreas ^e   Kallies, René ^a   Briese, Thomas ^f   Lipkin, W Ian ^f   Drosten, Christian ^a   Gillespie, Thomas R ^b,c   Junglen, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^e ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^f University of Minnesota ^*  (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BUNYAVIRUS; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERBERT VIRUS; KIBALE VIRUS; MORPHOLOGY; MOSQUITO; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TAI VIRUS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS PURIFICATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TITRATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BUNYAVIRIDAE; BUNYAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CELL LINE; CULICIDAE; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84887142092     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01862-13     Document Type: Article

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