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Biological and phylogenetic characteristics of yellow fever virus lineages from West Africa.
Journal of virology - 1 Mar 2013
Stock Nina K, Laraway Hewád, Faye Ousmane, Diallo Mawlouth, Niedrig Matthias, Sall Amadou A
Abstract excerpt
The yellow fever virus (YFV), the first proven human-pathogenic virus, although isolated in 1927, is still a major public health problem, especially in West Africa where it causes outbreaks every year. Nevertheless, little is known about its genetic diversity and evolutionary dynamics, mainly due to a limited number of genomic sequences from wild virus isolates. In this study, we analyzed the phylogenetic...
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