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Ten years of global evolution of the human respiratory syncytial virus BA genotype with a 60-nucleotide duplication in the G protein gene.
Journal of virology - 1 Aug 2010
Trento Alfonsina, Casas Inmaculada, Calderón Ana, Garcia-Garcia Maria L, Calvo Cristina, Perez-Breña Pilar, Melero José A
Abstract excerpt
The emergence of natural isolates of human respiratory syncytial virus group B (HRSV-B) with a 60-nucleotide (nt) duplication in the G protein gene in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1999 (A. Trento et al., J. Gen. Virol. 84:3115-3120, 2003) and their dissemination worldwide allowed us to use the duplicated segment as a natural tag to examine in detail the evolution of HRSV during propagation in its natural host....
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