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The influence of secondary structure, selection and recombination on rubella virus nucleotide substitution rate estimates.
Virology journal - 16 Sept 2014
Cloete Leendert J, Tanov Emil P, Muhire Brejnev M, Martin Darren P, Harkins Gordon W
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Annually, rubella virus (RV) still causes severe congenital defects in around 100 000 children globally. An attempt to eradicate RV is currently underway and analytical tools to monitor the global decline of the last remaining RV lineages will be useful for assessing the effectiveness of this endeavour. RV evolves rapidly enough that much of this information might be inferable from RV genomic sequence...
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