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Molecular epidemiology of enterovirus 71 strains isolated from children in Yamagata, Japan, between 1990 and 2013.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Oct 2014
Mizuta Katsumi, Aoki Yoko, Matoba Yohei, Yahagi Kazue, Itagaki Tsutomu, Katsushima Fumio, Katsushima Yuriko, Ito Sueshi, Hongo Seiji, Matsuzaki Yoko
Abstract excerpt
Enterovirus 71 infections have become a major public issue in the Asia-Pacific region due to the large number of fatal cases. To clarify the longitudinal molecular epidemiology of enterovirus 71 (EV71) in a community, we isolated 240 strains from children, mainly with hand-foot-and-mouth diseases, between 1990 and 2013 in Yamagata, Japan. We carried out a sequence analysis of the VP1 region (891 bp) using 223...
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