Next-generation sequencing of southern African Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus isolates reveals a high frequency of M segment reassortment

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 142, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1952-1962

  Goedhals, D ^a   Bester, P A ^a   Paweska, J T ^b,c   Swanepoel, R ^d   Burt, F J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Arboviruses; bunyaviruses; haemorrhagic fever; molecular epidemiology

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA; DIHYDROLIPOAMIDE DEHYDROGENASE; M PROTEIN; VITRONECTIN;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; BUNYAVIRUS; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC REASSORTMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS ISOLATION; COEVOLUTION; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS; GENE CLUSTER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, VIRAL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REASSORTANT VIRUSES; RNA, VIRAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84904758942     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268814000818     Document Type: Article

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