Article
Isolation and characterization of a type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus from environmental surveillance in China, 2012.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Tao Zexin, Zhang Yong, Liu Yao, Xu Aiqiang, Lin Xiaojuan, Yoshida Hiromu, Xiong Ping, Zhu Shuangli, Wang Suting, Yan Dongmei, Song Lizhi, Wang Haiyan, Cui Ning, Xu Wenbo
Abstract excerpt
Environmental surveillance of poliovirus on sewage has been conducted in Shandong Province, China since 2008. A type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) with 7 mutations in VP1 coding region was isolated from the sewage collected in the city of Jinan in December 2012. The complete genome sequencing analysis of this isolate revealed 25 nucleotide substitutions, 7 of which resulted in amino acid alteration. No...
Topics
- China
- Environmental Monitoring
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genome, Viral
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny
- Poliovirus
- Poliovirus Vaccines
- Sewage
- Temperature
- Vaccination
