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Appearance of mosaic enterovirus 71 in the 2008 outbreak of China.
Virus research - 1 Oct 2009
Ding Nai-Zheng, Wang Xing-Ming, Sun Shuang-Wu, Song Qian, Li Shan-Ni, He Cheng-Qiang
Abstract excerpt
Enterovirus 71 (EV71) is a pathogen of hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD). In the last year and this spring, HFMD caused by EV71 repeatedly broke out and has resulted in at least 50 children's death in China. It is important to know the mechanism effecting genetic diversity of the virus circulating in China in order to prevent future outbreaks in the country. Homologous recombination has been proved to play a...
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