Related strains of African swine fever virus with different virulence: Genome comparison and analysis

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 408-419

  Portugal, Raquel ^a   Coelho, João ^b   Höper, Dirk ^a   Little, Nicole S ^d   Smithson, Chad ^d   Upton, Chris ^d   Martins, Carlos ^b   Leitão, Alexandre ^b,c   Keil, Günther M ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIVE VACCINE; VIRULENCE FACTOR; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AFRICAN SWINE FEVER VIRUS; ARTICLE; EUROPE; EUROPEAN; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TISSUE CULTURE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WEST AFRICAN; ANIMAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SWINE; VIRULENCE;

AFRICAN SWINE FEVER VIRUS;

AFRICAN SWINE FEVER VIRUS; ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, VIRAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, VIRAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PORTUGAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SWINE; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84921760926     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.070508-0     Document Type: Article

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