Article
Molecular epidemiology of mumps virus in Japan and proposal of two new genotypes.
Journal of medical virology - 1 May 2004
Inou Yoko, Nakayama Tetsuo, Yoshida Naoko, Uejima Hajime, Yuri Kenji, Kamada Makoto, Kumagai Takuji, Sakiyama Hiroshi, Miyata Akiko, Ochiai Hitoshi, Ihara Toshiaki, Okafuji Teruo, Okafuji Takao, Nagai Takao, Suzuki Eitaro, Shimomura Kunihisa, Ito Yuhei, Miyazaki Chiaki
Abstract excerpt
We isolated 872 strains of mumps virus from naso-pharyngeal secretions in seven different districts of Japan from January 2000 to July 2001. Among them, 57 strains were geno-typed by nucleotide sequencing in part of the hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) and small hydrophobic (SH) protein regions. Four different genotypes (B, G, K, and L) of mumps virus were co-circulating in Japan and the distribution of genotypes...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Antibodies, Viral
- Antigenic Variation
- Antigens, Viral
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Viral
- Genes, Viral
- Genotype
- HN Protein
- Humans