Functional characterization of the attachment glycoprotein of Nipah virus: role in fusion, inhibition of henipavirus infection, generation of chimeric proteins, and assembly of chimeric viruses
Nipah virus (NiV) and Hendra virus (HeV) have been identified as the causes of outbreaks of fatal meningitis, encephalitis, and respiratory disease in Australia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, and India from 1994 until 2004. In order to accommodate the unique genomic characteristics of NiV and HeV, a new...
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2007
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/2809 |