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Patterns of Eurasian HSV-1 molecular diversity and inferences of human migrations.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2006
Bowden Rory, Sakaoka Hiroshi, Ward Ryk, Donnelly Peter
Abstract excerpt
Following our recent report of high levels of recombination and geographic structuring amongst isolates from two populations, we have investigated global patterns of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) molecular diversity using population samples from six countries in Europe, Asia and Africa. Sequence comparisons show that HSV-1 from Kenya is both highly diverse and distinct from either European or Asian HSV-1....
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