Revealing new measles virus transmission routes by use of sequence analysis of phosphoprotein and hemagglutinin genes

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 677-683

  Kessler, Julia R ^a   Kremer, Jacques R ^a   Shulga, Sergey V ^b   Tikhonova, Nina T ^b   Santibanez, Sabine ^c   Mankertz, Annette ^c   Semeiko, Galina V ^d   Samoilovich, Elena O ^d   Tamfum, Jean Jacques Muyembe ^e   Pukuta, Elisabeth ^e   Muller, Claude P ^a  

^a LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Luxembourg)

^b WHO Regional Reference Laboratory for Measles and Rubella   (Russian Federation)

^c WHO Regional Reference Laboratory for Measles and Rubella   (Germany)

^d Republican Research and Practical Centre for Epidemiology and Microbiology   (Belarus)

^e Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale   (Democratic Republic Congo)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOPROTEIN; VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ;

AFRICA; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BELARUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGO; EUROPE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC PATHOLOGY; GERMANY; HUMAN; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AFRICA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EUROPE; HEMAGGLUTININS, VIRAL; HUMANS; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; NUCLEOPROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRAL PROTEINS;

MEASLES VIRUS;

EID: 79951503454     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01703-10     Document Type: Article

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