Publications

emergence of a new human adenovirus type 4 (ad4) genotype: identification of a novel inverted terminal repeated (itr) sequence from majority of ad4 isolates from us military recruits.

ad4 is the principal etiological agent of acute respiratory disease (ard) in the us military. discovery of the novel 208bp inverted terminal repeated (itr) sequence from a recent ad4 jax78 field isolate was totally distinct from the analogous 116bp itr of ad4 prototype.