Origin of hepatitis C virus genotype 3 in Africa as estimated through an evolutionary analysis of the full-length genomes of nine subtypes, including the newly sequenced 3d and 3e

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 95, Issue PART 8, 2014, Pages 1677-1688

  Li, Chunhua ^a   Lu, Ling ^a   Murphy, Donald G ^b   Negro, Francesco ^c   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AFRICA; ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENOME SIZE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS GENOTYPE 3; MIDDLE EAST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SOUTH ASIA; VIRUS GENOME;

AFRICA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84904412660     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.065128-0     Document Type: Article

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