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The first genetic characterization of a D4 measles virus strain derived from a patient with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jul 2013
Ivancic-Jelecki Jelena, Baricevic Marijana, Santak Maja, Harcet Matija, Tešović Goran, Marusic Della Marina Branka, Forcic Dubravko
Abstract excerpt
Measles virus (MV) strains derived from patients with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), SSPE strains, possess numerous mutations when compared to viruses belonging to the same genotype and circulating in similar time period. Although many SSPE strains have been extensively characterized, none of them belongs to D4 genotype which currently predominates in Europe where it has caused a number of recent...
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