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Recent change of the antigenicity and genotype of Japanese encephalitis viruses distributed on Okinawa Island, Japan.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene - 1 Oct 2007
Saito Mika, Taira Katsuya, Itokazu Kiyomasa, Mori Naoki
Abstract excerpt
In this study, five isolates of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) were obtained from swine serum samples collected on Okinawa Island, Japan, between 2002 and 2003. All five JEV isolates belonged to genotype 1, and JEV isolates obtained from the island before 1992 were genotype 3. Genotype 1 was known to be distributed from northern Thailand to Cambodia and recently expanded to Australia, Vietnam, the Republic of...
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