New measles virus genotype associated with outbreak, China

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 943-947

  Zhang, Yan ^a   Ding, Zhengrong ^b   Wang, Huiling ^a,c,d   Li, Liqun ^b   Pang, Yankun ^b   Brown, Kevin E ^e   Xu, Songtao ^a   Zhu, Zhen ^a   Rota, Paul A ^f   Featherstone, David ^g   Xu, Wenbo ^a  

^a National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^b YUNNAN PROVINCIAL CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^c CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^f CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^g WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; NUCLEOPROTEIN; VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFANT; MEASLES; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THROAT CULTURE; URINE CULTURE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; HEMAGGLUTININS, VIRAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOPROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 77952683194     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1606.100089     Document Type: Article

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