Article
Virology of measles virus.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Nov 1994
Bellini W J, Rota J S, Rota P A
Abstract excerpt
Measles virus is the prototypic member of the Morbillivirus genus of the family Paramyxoviridae. The viral genomic RNA is single-stranded, nonsegmented, and of negative polarity and encodes six major structural proteins. The two viral transmembrane glycoproteins, the hemagglutinin and fusion prot...
Topics
- Animals
- Antigenic Variation
- Cytopathogenic Effect, Viral
- Genetic Variation
- Genome, Viral
- Humans
- Measles virus
- Phylogeny
- Receptors, Virus
- Vaccines, Attenuated
- Viral Proteins
- Viral Vaccines
- Virion