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Different genotype pattern of varicella-zoster virus obtained from patients with varicella and zoster in Germany.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Jul 2007
Sauerbrei A, Wutzler P
Abstract excerpt
The general use of the varicella vaccine requires the surveillance of varicella-zoster virus (VZV) strains in patients infected with VZV. This paper reports the data achieved from a prospective study of genotyping VZV in Germany, analyzing the restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) of the open reading frames (ORF) 38, 54, and 62 as well as the polymorphism of the R5 repeat region. The study included 177...
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