Discovery of a novel alphavirus related to Eilat virus

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 43-49

  Hermanns, Kyra ^a   Zirkel, Florian ^a,b   Kopp, Anne ^a   Marklewitz, Marco ^a   Rwego, Innocent B ^c,d,e,g   Estrada, Alejandro ^f   Gillespie, Thomas R ^c,d   Drosten, Christian ^a,b   Junglen, Sandra ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^f UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alphavirus; Generic RT PCR; Insect specific; Mosquito; Repeated sequence elements

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ALPHAVIRUS; ARTICLE; COTE D'IVOIRE; CULEX; EILAT VIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME;

ALPHAVIRUS; ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COTE D'IVOIRE; CULEX; GENOME, VIRAL; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 85013764748     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.000694     Document Type: Article

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