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A case of varicella caused by co-infection with two different genotypes of varicella-zoster virus.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Jan 2009
Quinlivan M, Sengupta N, Breuer J
Abstract excerpt
We describe for the first time a case of varicella caused by co-infection with 2 genotypes of Varicella-zoster virus in a 19 month old child 3 days post-immunization with the varicella live vaccine. The presence of 2 different wild-type viruses in vesicular fluid was confirmed by amplification from single virus genomes and genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) known to distinguish the 5 different...
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