Isolation of a wild type measles virus classified as genotype H1 in Osaka City

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 177-179

  Kubo, Hideyuki ^a   Iritani, Nobuhiro ^a   Murakami, Tsukasa ^a   Haruki, Kosuke ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CANADA; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; NEIGHBOR JOINING METHOD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; MEASLES VIRUS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0036823010     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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