Comparative genomic analysis of pre-epidemic and epidemic Zika virus strains for virological factors potentially associated with the rapidly expanding epidemic

Emerging Microbes and Infections

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Zhu, Zheng ^a   Chan, Jasper Fuk Woo ^a,b   Tee, Kah Meng ^a   Choi, Garnet Kwan Yue ^a   Lau, Susanna Kar Pui ^a,b   Woo, Patrick Chiu Yat ^a,b   Tse, Herman ^a,b   Yuen, Kwok Yung ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Arbovirus; Flavivirus; Genome; Microcephaly; Mosquito; Mutation; Virus; Zika

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 2; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 2B; POLYPROTEIN; STIMULATORY GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYCLIZATION; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDEMIC; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STOP CODON; VIRAL TROPISM; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS VIRULENCE; ZIKA FEVER; ZIKA VIRUS; ADULT; AFRICA; ASIA; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

ADULT; AFRICA; AMERICAS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ASIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMICS; GENES, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; MUTATION; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 85013999926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22221751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emi.2016.48     Document Type: Article

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