Comprehensive molecular detection of tick-borne phleboviruses leads to the retrospective identification of taxonomically unassigned bunyaviruses and the discovery of a novel member of the genus Phlebovirus

Journal of Virology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 594-604

  Matsuno, Keita ^a   Weisend, Carla ^a   Kajihara, Masahiro ^b   Matysiak, Colette ^a   Williamson, Brandi N ^a   Simuunza, Martin ^c   Mweene, Aaron S ^c   Takada, Ayato ^b,c   Tesh, Robert B ^d,e   Ebihara, Hideki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^d University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENETIC PROCEDURES; KISMAYO VIRUS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHLEBOVIRUS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SILVERWATER VIRUS; TAXONOMY; TICK BORNE PHLEBOVIRUS; UUKUNIEMI VIRUS; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TITRATION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; ZAMBIA; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; ORTHOBUNYAVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; TICK; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

IXODIDA; ORTHOBUNYAVIRUS; PHLEBOVIRUS;

PRIMER DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; GENOME, VIRAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORTHOBUNYAVIRUS; PHLEBOVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TICKS; VIROLOGY;

EID: 84919458576     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02704-14     Document Type: Article

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