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The Life Cycle of the Vaccinia Virus Genome

Matthew D Greseth1, Paula Traktman1,2

  • 1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA;

Annual Review of Virology
|May 18, 2022
PubMed

Keywords:
DNA encapsidationDNA packagingDNA replicationpoxvirusreplication factoriesvaccinia virus

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