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An outbreak of severe infections among Australian infants caused by a novel recombinant strain of human parechovirus type 3.
Scientific reports - 14 Mar 2017
Nelson Tiffanie M, Vuillermin Peter, Hodge Jason, Druce Julian, Williams David T, Jasrotia Rekha, Alexandersen Soren
Abstract excerpt
Human parechovirus types 1-16 (HPeV1-16) are positive strand RNA viruses in the family Picornaviridae. We investigated a 2015 outbreak of HPeV3 causing illness in infants in Victoria, Australia. Virus genome was extracted from clinical material and isolates and sequenced using a combination of next generation and Sanger sequencing. The HPeV3 outbreak genome was 98.7% similar to the HPeV3 Yamagata 2011 lineage for...
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