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Characterization of measles virus strains circulating in Southern Italy (Palermo area, Sicily) between 2010 and 2011.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Mar 2016
Urone Noemi, Colomba Claudia, Ferraro Donatella
Abstract excerpt
Measles virus (MV) was classified in 24 genotypes that show a distinct geographic distribution. Genotypes contain multiple distinct lineages. In 2011 large outbreaks of measles occurred in Italy and in many European countries. Aims of this study are to analyze the intra-genotype variability and to follow the importation and the spread of new MV strains in Sicily. A fragment of 450 bps of MV C-terminal...
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