Measles re-emergence in Northern Italy: Pathways of measles virus genotype D8, 2013–2014

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 48, Issue , 2017, Pages 120-126

  Amendola, Antonella ^a,b   Bianchi, Silvia ^a   Lai, Alessia ^c   Canuti, Marta ^d   Piralla, Antonio ^e   Baggieri, Melissa ^f   Ranghiero, Alberto ^a   Piatti, Alessandra ^g   Tanzi, Elisabetta ^a,b   Zehender, Gianguglielmo ^b,c   Magurano, Fabio ^f   Baldanti, Fausto ^e,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^e FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

^f ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^g Directorate General for Health   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Measles; Phylogeny; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; GENOTYPE; ITALY; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; N GENE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; VIROLOGY;

VIRAL PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ITALY; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 85007415639     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2016.12.013     Document Type: Article

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