Distribution of varicella-zoster virus (VZV) wild-type genotypes in northern and southern Europe: Evidence for high conservation of circulating genotypes

Virology

Volumn 383, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 216-225

  Loparev, Vladimir N ^a   Rubtcova, Elena N ^b   Bostik, Vanda ^b   Tzaneva, Valentina ^c   Sauerbrei, Andreas ^d   Robo, Alma ^e   Sattler Dornbacher, Eva ^f   Hanovcova, Iva ^g   Stepanova, Vera ^h   Splino, Miroslav ^h   Eremin, Vladimir ⁱ   Koskiniemi, Marjaleena ^j   Vankova, Olga E ^k   Schmid, D Scott ^b  

^a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^c University Hospital   (Bulgaria)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^e Institute of Public Health   (Albania)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^g Purkinje Medical School   (Czech Republic)

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HRADEC KRALOVE   (Czech Republic)

ⁱ Research Institute for Epidemiology & Microbiology RIEM   (Belarus)

^j UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^k RPC Diagnostic Systems Ltd   (Russian Federation)

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Author keywords

Chickenpox; Genotyping; Molecular epidemiology; Mosaic strains; Single nucleotide polymorphisms; Varicella zoster virus; VZV; Wild type virus; Zoster

Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX VACCINE; PROTEIN ORF21; PROTEIN ORF22; PROTEIN ORF50; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

CHICKENPOX; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; EUROPE; GENOTYPE; HERPES ZOSTER; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 3;

EID: 58149193317     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2008.10.026     Document Type: Article

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