Tick-borne encephalitis virus sequenced directly from questing and blood-feeding ticks reveals quasispecies variance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Asghar, Naveed ^a   Lindblom, Pontus ^b   Melik, Wessam ^a   Lindqvist, Richard ^c   Haglund, Mats ^d   Forsberg, Pia ^b,e   Överby, Anna K ^c   Andreassen, Åshild ^f   Lindgren, Per Eric ^b,g   Johansson, Magnus ^a,h,i  

^a SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d KALMAR COUNTY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^f NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^g RYHOV COUNTY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^h ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ Örebro University   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYADENYLIC ACID; VIRUS RNA;

3' NON CODING REGION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INVERTEBRATE; IXODES RICINUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYMPH; PHYLOGENY; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VERTEBRATE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS VIRULENCE; AGED; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; VIROLOGY;

AGED; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NYMPH; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TICKS;

EID: 84904787606     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103264     Document Type: Article

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