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Genetic analysis of recent Taiwanese isolates of a variant of coxsackievirus A24.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Jul 2001
Lin K H, Chern C L, Chu P Y, Chang C H, Wang H L, Sheu M M, Huang W L, Pongsuwanna Y, Yamamoto S, Yoshino S, Ishiko H, Takeda N
Abstract excerpt
Epidemics of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis (AHC) caused by a variant of coxsackievirus A24 (CA24v) reappeared in Taiwan in 1990 and 1994, following the first two epidemics of 1985--86 and 1988--89. To analyze the genetic diversity of recent CA24v in Taiwan, 7 Taiwanese strains isolated during the 1990--94 period were studied together with one Japanese and two Thai strains isolated in 1993. A fragment of 674...
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