Novel respiratory syncytial virus subtype ON1 among children, Cape Town, South Africa, 2012

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 668-670

  Valley Omar, Ziyaad ^a,b   Muloiwa, Rudzani ^a,c   Hu, Nai Chung ^b   Eley, Brian ^c   Hsiao, Nei Yuan ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^c RED CROSS WAR MEMORIAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (South Africa)

^d NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN;

ADENOVIRUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BRONCHIOLITIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTION; RHINOVIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA;

CAPE TOWN; GENOTYPE; NA1; NOSOCOMIAL; ON1; PEDIATRIC; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS; RSV; SOUTH AFRICA; SUBTYPE; VIRUSES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CHILD; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS, HUMAN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOUTH AFRICA; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

EID: 84875306663     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1904.121465     Document Type: Letter

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