Close relationship between west nile virus from turkey and lineage 1 strain from central African Republic

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 352-355

  Ergunay, Koray ^a   Bakonyi, Tamas ^b,c   Nowotny, Norbert ^b,d   Ozkul, Aykut ^e  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^e ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS LINEAGE 1 STRAIN; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HORSE; HORSE DISEASES; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; TURKEY; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC; GENOME, VIRAL; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TURKEY; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84921775117     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2102.141135     Document Type: Article

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