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Genetic homogeneity of measles viruses associated with a measles outbreak, São Paulo, Brazil, 1997.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Aug 2002
Oliveira Maria I, Rota Paul A, Curti Suely P, Figueiredo Cristina A, Afonso Ana M S, Theobaldo Marcia, Souza Luiza T M, Liffick Stephanie L, Bellini William J, Moraes Jose C, Stevien Klaus E, Durigon Edison L
Abstract excerpt
During a resurgence of measles in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1997, >40,000 cases (peak incidence rate of 246/100,000 inhabitants) and 42 measles-related deaths were reported. Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction and nucleotide sequencing were used to analyze specimens from patients who had typical clinical measles infection during this outbreak and from six patients who had had measles in 1995 and 1996....
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