Open reading frame 1 of the Norwalk-like virus Camberwell: completion of sequence and expression in mammalian cells

E L Seah1, J A Marshall, P J Wright

  • 1Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia.

Journal of Virology
|November 13, 1999
PubMed

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