Usutu virus: An emerging flavivirus in Europe

Viruses

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 219-238

  Ashraf, Usama ^a   Ye, Jing ^a   Ruan, Xindi ^a   Wan, Shengfeng ^a   Zhu, Bibo ^a   Cao, Shengbo ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Austria; Culex pipiens; SouthAfrica 1959; Turdus merula; Usutu virus

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EUROPE; FLAVIVIRUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC PATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; LIFE CYCLE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MORTALITY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; USUTU VIRUS; VIRAL TROPISM; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; ENCEPHALITIS, ARBOVIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTIONS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

AVES; CULEX PIPIENS; FLAVIVIRUS; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; MURRAY VALLEY ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; TURDUS MERULA; USUTU VIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, JAPANESE; ENCEPHALITIS, ARBOVIRUS; EUROPE; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS;

EID: 84921727475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v7010219     Document Type: Article

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