Enterovirus A71 genogroups C and E in children with acute flaccid paralysis, West Africa

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 753-755

  Fernandez Garcia, Maria D ^a   Kebe, Ousmane ^a   Fall, Aichatou D ^a   Dia, Hamet ^a   Diop, Ousmane M ^b   Delpeyroux, Francis ^c,d   Ndiaye, Kader ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR   (Senegal)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^d Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; ENTEROVIRUS 71; FLACCID PARALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAND FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; LETTER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLIOMYELITIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; ENTEROVIRUS A; FECES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR TYPING; PARAPLEGIA; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VIROLOGY;

CAPSID PROTEIN;

AFRICA, WESTERN; CAPSID PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENTEROVIRUS A, HUMAN; FECES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TYPING; PARAPLEGIA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84961206974     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2204.151588     Document Type: Letter

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