Variable region of the 3′ UTR is a critical virulence factor in the Far-Eastern subtype of tick-borne encephalitis virus in a mouse model

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 95, Issue PART 4, 2014, Pages 823-835

  Sakai, Mizuki ^a   Yoshii, Kentaro ^a   Sunden, Yuji ^a   Yokozawa, Kana ^a   Hirano, Minato ^a   Kariwa, Hiroaki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR; VIRUS PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARBOVIRUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL CULTURE; CLONE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE DELETION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84897053967     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.060046-0     Document Type: Article

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