An outbreak of measles virus infection due to a genotype D9 at a junior high school in Yamagata, Japan in 2004

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 98-100

  Mizuta, Katsumi ^f   Abiko, Chieko ^f   Murata, Toshio ^f   Yamada, Keiko ^a   Ahiko, Tadayuki ^a   Sakamoto, Michiyo ^b   Tsuchida, Shuji ^c   Matsuzaki, Yoko ^d   Hongo, Seiji ^d   Sunagawa, Tomimasa ^e   Kudo, Katsuhiro ^f  

^a Murayama Public Health Center   (Japan)

^b Yamagata City Hospital Saiseikan   (Japan)

^c Tsuchida Pediatric Clinic   (Japan)

^d YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^f YAMAGATA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATIENT MONITORING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STUDENT; THROAT CULTURE; VERO CELL; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 19944410825     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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