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Spread and Evolution of Respiratory Syncytial Virus A Genotype ON1, Coastal Kenya, 2010-2015.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Feb 2017
Otieno James R, Kamau Everlyn M, Agoti Charles N, Lewa Clement, Otieno Grieven, Bett Ann, Ngama Mwanajuma, Cane Patricia A, Nokes D James
Abstract excerpt
In February 2012, the novel respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) group A, genotype ON1, was detected in Kilifi County, coastal Kenya. ON1 is characterized by a 72-nt duplication within the highly variable G gene (encoding the immunogenic attachment surface protein). Cases were diagnosed through surveillance of pneumonia in children at the county hospital. Analysis of epidemiologic, clinical, and sequence data of...
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