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Distribution and characterization of tick-borne encephalitis viruses from Siberia and far-eastern Asia.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Jun 2001
Hayasaka Daisuke, Ivanov Leonid, Leonova Galina N, Goto Akiko, Yoshii Kentaro, Mizutani Tetsuya, Kariwa Hiroaki, Takashima Ikuo
Abstract excerpt
In this study, tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) viruses from Siberia and far-eastern Asia were characterized in order to determine virus subtype distribution. TBE viruses were isolated from ticks (Ixodes persulcatus) collected in the far-eastern (Khabarovsk and Vladivostok) and Siberian (Irkutsk) regions of Russia in 1999. Phylogenetic analysis showed that isolates formed distinct clusters of far-eastern and...
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