Genomic and antigenic characterization of Jos virus
Author(s) -
Ana Valeria Bussetti,
Gustavo Palacios,
Amélia Travassos da Rosa,
Nazir Savji,
Komal Jain,
Hilda Guzmán,
Stephen Hutchison,
Vsevolod L. Popov,
Robert B. Tesh,
W. Ian Lipkin
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of general virology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.55
H-Index - 167
eISSN - 1465-2099
pISSN - 0022-1317
DOI - 10.1099/vir.0.035121-0
Subject(s) - biology , virology , virus , antigen , epitope , genetics
Jos virus (JOSV), originally isolated in Jos, Nigeria in 1967, has remained unclassified despite cultivation in tissue culture, development of animal models of infection and implementation of seroprevalence surveys for infection. Here, we report genetic, ultrastructural and serological evidence that JOSV is an orthomyxovirus distinct from but phylogenetically related to viruses of the genus Thogotovirus.
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