Characterization of a West Nile virus isolate from a human on the Gulf Coast of Texas

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 5375-5377

  Granwehr, Bruno P ^a   Li, Li ^a   Davis, Charles T ^a   Beasley, David W C ^a   Barrett, Alan D T ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEXAS; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

FLAVIVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 8644263079     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.11.5375-5377.2004     Document Type: Article

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