Complete nucleotide sequence analysis of the VP1 genomic region of Echoviruses 6 isolated from sewage in Greece revealed 98% similarity with Echoviruses 6 that were characterized from an aseptic meningitis outbreak 1year later

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1170-1173

  Kyriakopoulou, Z ^a   Dedepsidis, E ^a   Pliaka, V ^a   Tsakogiannis, D ^a   Ruether, I G A ^a   Krikelis, A ^b   Markoulatos, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b LUX Innovate Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Echovirus 6; Intraspecies recombination; Molecular analysis; VP1

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN VP1;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; GENOME ANALYSIS; GREECE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS MENINGITIS; VIRUS STRAIN;

ENTEROVIRUS; HUMAN ECHOVIRUS 6;

EID: 79960700061     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03381.x     Document Type: Article

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