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Semliki Forest Virus
Investigators at University of Oxford have published new data on semliki forest virus
November 25th, 2008
"Me Tri virus (MTV) is a member of the Semliki Forest virus (SFV) complex in the genus Alphavirus, first isolated from Culex tritaeniorhynchus mosquitoes in Vietnam in 1971 and described as a newly recognized alphavirus, based on antigenic characterization. However, based on a partial nucleotide sequence of the Ell envelope glycoprotein gene, it has recently been argued that MTV may represent a variant of SFV rather than a separate species," scientists writing in the Journal of General Virology report. "To enable definitive classification, we determined the complete genome sequence of MTV from original virus stock. Nucleotide homology, as well as phylogenetic...
Source: Virus Weekly (2008-11-25)
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