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[Genotyping of West Nile fever virus strains circulating in southern Russia as an epidemiological investigation method: principles and results].
Zhurnal mikrobiologii, epidemiologii i immunobiologii - 1 Jan 2000
Platonov A E, Karan' L S, Shopenskaia T A, Fedorova M V, Koliasnikova N M, Rusakova N M, Shishkina L V, Arshba T E, Zhuravlev V I, Govorukhina M V, Valentseva A A, Shipulin G A
Abstract excerpt
AIM: Characteristic of West Nile fever (WNF) virus strains circulating in southern Russia. MATERIALS AND METHODS: WNF RNA was amplified directly from clinical samples, mosquitoes and bird tissues by PCR, nucleotides were sequenced directly and analyzed comparatively. RESULTS: Related but different genovariants of WNF lineage 1a--"Volgograd" and "Astrakhan"--circulated during WNF outbreaks of 1999 and 2000-2003 in...
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