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Molecular characterization of measles virus strains causing subacute sclerosing panencephalitis in France in 1977 and 2007.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Sept 2011
Moulin Emilie, Beal Vanda, Jeantet Damien, Horvat Branka, Wild T Fabian, Waku-Kouomou Diane
Abstract excerpt
Measles virus strains from two subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) cases diagnosed in 1977 (Laine strain) and in 2007 (Hoedts strain) were studied. Phylogenetic analysis based on C-terminal part of the nucleoprotein and the entire H gene showed that Hoedts strain, circulating in France presumably in the 1980s, belonged to genotype C2. However, Laine strain, suspected to have circulated between 1940s and...
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