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Genetic characterization of wild-type measles viruses circulating in suburban Khartoum, 1997-2000.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Jun 2002
El Mubarak H S, van de Bildt M W G, Mustafa O A, Vos H W, Mukhtar M M, Ibrahim S A, Andeweg A C, El Hassan A M, Osterhaus A D M E, de Swart R L
Abstract excerpt
Measles remains endemic in many East African countries, where it is often associated with high morbidity and mortality. We collected clinical specimens from Sudanese measles patients between July 1997 and July 2000. Sequencing of the 3' 456 nucleotides of the nucleoprotein gene from 33 measles virus (MV) isolates and 8 RNA samples extracted from clinical specimens demonstrated the presence of a single endemic MV...
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