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Genetic divergence and dispersal of yellow fever virus, Brazil.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Sept 2004
Vasconcelos Pedro F C, Bryant Juliet E, da Rosa Travassos P A, Tesh Robert B, Rodrigues Sueli G, Barrett Alan D T
Abstract excerpt
An analysis of 79 yellow fever virus (YFV) isolates collected from 1935 to 2001 in Brazil showed a single genotype (South America I) circulating in the country, with the exception of a single strain from Rondonia, which represented South America genotype II. Brazilian YFV strains have diverged into two clades; an older clade appears to have become extinct and another has become the dominant lineage in recent...
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