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Investigation of the genotype III to genotype I shift in Japanese encephalitis virus and the impact on human cases.
Virologica Sinica - 1 Aug 2015
Han Na, Adams James, Fang Wei, Liu Si-Qing, Rayner Simon
Abstract excerpt
Japanese encephalitis is a mosquito borne disease and is the leading cause of viral encephalitis in the Asia-Pacific area. The causative agent, Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) can be phylogenetically classified into five genotypes based on nucleotide sequence. In recent years, genotype I (GI) has displaced genotype III (GIII) as the dominant lineage, but the mechanisms behind this displacement event requires...
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