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Characterization of a new genotype of measles virus detected in China and England.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Dec 1998
Jin L, Sun Y J, Ge L, Brown D W
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We report the co-circulation of a new lineage of measles virus (MV) and an Edmonston-like (Ed-like) genotype of MV in China during 1995-7. Sequence analysis of 25 strains was performed on a 282 nucleotides (nt) region of the nucleoprotein (N) gene, a 450-nt region of the haemagglutinin (H) gene and a 152-nt region of the matrix (M) gene by direct sequencing of RT-PCR amplicons obtained from clinical specimens....
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