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Shift in Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) genotype circulating in northern Vietnam: implications for frequent introductions of JEV from Southeast Asia to East Asia.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Jun 2004
Nga Phan Thi, Parquet Maria Del Carmen, Cuong Vuong Duc, Ma Shao-Ping, Hasebe Futoshi, Inoue Shingo, Makino Yoshihiro, Takagi Masahiro, Nam Vu Sinh, Morita Kouichi
Abstract excerpt
This study analyses the evolutionary relatedness of 16 Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) isolates (nine from Vietnam and seven from Japan) to previously published JEV strains using E gene sequence data. Vietnamese and Japanese strains isolated between 1986 and 1990 were found to cluster in genotype 3. However, more recent Vietnamese and Japanese strains isolated between 1995 and 2002 grouped within genotype 1,...
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