Identification and characterization of a new orthoreovirus from patients with acute respiratory infections.

First discovered in the early 1950s, reoviruses (respiratory enteric orphan viruses) were not associated with any known disease, and hence named orphan viruses. Recently, our group reported the isolation of the Melaka virus from a patient with acute respiratory disease and provided data suggesting t...

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Main Authors: Kaw Bing Chua, Kenny Voon, Gary Crameri, Hui Siu Tan, Juliana Rosli, Jennifer A McEachern, Sivagami Suluraju, Meng Yu, Lin-Fa Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/19030226/?tool=EBI