Molecular analysis of measles virus genome derived from SSPE and acute measles patients in Papua, New Guinea

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 105-112

  Miki, Kenji ^a,b   Komase, Katsuhiro ^b   Mgone, Charles S ^c   Kawanishi, Ryuta ^a,b   Iijima, Masumi ^b   Mgone, Joyce M ^d   Asuo, Peter G ^d   Alpers, Michael P ^c   Takasu, Toshiaki ^a   Mizutani, Tomohiko ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KITASATO INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^d Goroka Base General Hospital   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

Genomic variability; Hemagglutinin; Nucleoprotein; Phylogenetic tree analysis; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HEMAGGLUTININ; MEASLES VACCINE; NUCLEOPROTEIN; VIRUS DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VACCINATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; ACUTE DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; VIROLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; DNA, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMAN; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; HUMANS;

MEASLES VIRUS;

EID: 0036021211     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.10176     Document Type: Article

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