Article
Dominant glycoprotein epitope of four corners hantavirus is conserved across a wide geographical area.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Nov 1994
Hjelle B, Chavez-Giles F, Torrez-Martinez N, Yamada T, Sarisky J, Ascher M, Jenison S
Abstract excerpt
A newly identified hantavirus, tentatively called Four Corners virus (FCV), was found to be the aetiological agent of a 1993 outbreak of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in the southwestern United States. Immunodominant epitopes of 43 and 31 amino acids were identified in the nucleocapsid prot...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antibodies, Viral
- Autopsy
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Western
- Capsid
- Conserved Sequence
- DNA Primers
- Epitopes
- Florida
- Genes, Viral
- Genetic Variation
- Geography
- Glycoproteins
- Orthohantavirus
- Hantavirus Infections
- Humans