Genome-wide comparison of cowpox viruses reveals a new clade related to variola virus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Dabrowski, Piotr Wojtek ^a   Radonić, Aleksandar ^a   Kurth, Andreas ^a   Nitsche, Andreas ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAMELPOX VIRUS; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COWPOX VIRUS; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SMALLPOX VIRUS; TATERAPOX VIRUS; VACCINIA VIRUS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALS; CATS; CATTLE; COWPOX VIRUS; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; RATS; VARIOLA VIRUS;

EID: 84891796735     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079953     Document Type: Article

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