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Genetic characterization of early isolates of Japanese encephalitis virus: genotype II has been circulating since at least 1951.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Jan 2010
Schuh Amy J, Li Li, Tesh Robert B, Innis Bruce L, Barrett Alan D T
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Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) consists of five genotypes (GI-V). Phylogenetic characterization of 16 JEV strains isolated from the 'USSR', Japan and Korea during the 1930-1970s revealed that 15 strains fell into GIII, confirming that GIII was the predominant genotype of JEV in Japan and Korea between 1935 (isolation of the prototype strain; a GIII virus) and the 1990s (when GI supplanted GIII). One of the...
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