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A large Finnish echovirus 30 outbreak was preceded by silent circulation of the same genotype.
Virus genes - 1 Feb 2011
Savolainen-Kopra Carita, Paananen Anja, Blomqvist Soile, Klemola Päivi, Simonen Marja-Leena, Lappalainen Maija, Vuorinen Tytti, Kuusi Markku, Lemey Philippe, Roivainen Merja
Abstract excerpt
An outbreak of echovirus 30 (E-30) in 2009 was confirmed by both frequent isolation of the virus from sewage as well as from patient samples in Finland. Over the last 10 years E-30 had only been isolated sporadically in Finland. We here study the phylogenetic relationships of the strains from the outbreak in the context of E-30 circulation over the last 20 years. The analyzed region comprised 276 nucleotides in...
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