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Genotype analysis of varicella-zoster virus isolates from suburban Shanghai Municipal Province, China.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Feb 2016
Sun Z, Guo Y, Li M, Yao Z
Abstract excerpt
To determine the predominant genotype of the varicella-zoster virus (VZV) in suburban Shanghai Municipal Province, specimens were collected from the lesions of 95 outpatients clinically diagnosed with varicella or herpes zoster. Of these, 69 patients (72.6%) were positive for VZV DNA. The 69 isolates were all genotyped as the genotype J1/clade 2. Based on sequencing of the 447 bp sequence in ORF22, 66 isolates...
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