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Genetic diversity among Bolivian arenaviruses.
Virus research - 1 Mar 2009
Cajimat Maria N B, Milazzo Mary Louise, Rollin Pierre E, Nichol Stuart T, Bowen Michael D, Ksiazek Thomas G, Fulhorst Charles F
Abstract excerpt
Machupo virus and Chapare virus are members of the Tacaribe serocomplex (virus family Arenaviridae) and etiological agents of hemorrhagic fever in humans in Bolivia. The nucleotide sequences of the complete Z genes, a large fragment of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase genes, the complete glycoprotein precursor genes, and the complete nucleocapsid protein genes of 8 strains of Machupo virus were determined to...
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