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A study of the evolution of coxsackievirus A24 variant in Ghana by viral RNA fingerprinting analysis.
Research in virology - 1 Jan 2000
Brandful J A, Takeda N, Yoshii T, Miyamura K, Mingle J A, Addy E T, Yamazaki S
Abstract excerpt
An epidemic of acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis (AHC) caused by coxsackievirus A24 variant (CA24v) was reported in Accra, Ghana in May 1987. We studied 7 of the viral strains collected from May to November, 1987, by RNA genome fingerprinting. Pairwise comparisons of the oligonucleotide maps show...
Topics
- Adult
- Biological Evolution
- Child, Preschool
- Conjunctivitis, Acute Hemorrhagic
- Coxsackievirus Infections
- Disease Outbreaks
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional
- Enterovirus
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Ghana
- HeLa Cells
- Humans
- Male
- Nucleotide Mapping
- Phylogeny
- RNA, Viral
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid