Identification of group B respiratory syncytial viruses that lack the 60-nucleotide duplication after six consecutive epidemics of total BA dominance at coastal Kenya

Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1008-1012

  Agoti, Charles N ^a   Gitahi, Caroline W ^a   Medley, Graham F ^b   Cane, Patricia A ^c   Nokes, D James ^a,b  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attachment (G gene); BA genotype; Genetic diversity; Respiratory syncytial virus

Indexed keywords

60 NUCLEOTIDE; NUCLEOTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BA GENOTYPE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; EPIDEMIC; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFANT; KENYA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ATTACHMENT (G GENE); BA GENOTYPE; GENETIC DIVERSITY; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUSES; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84887207096     PISSN: 17502640     EISSN: 17502659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/irv.12131     Document Type: Article

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