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Phylodynamics of Yellow Fever Virus in the Americas: new insights into the origin of the 2017 Brazilian outbreak.
Scientific reports - 7 Aug 2017
Mir Daiana, Delatorre Edson, Bonaldo Myrna, Lourenço-de-Oliveira Ricardo, Vicente Ana Carolina, Bello Gonzalo
Abstract excerpt
Yellow fever virus (YFV) strains circulating in the Americas belong to two distinct genotypes (I and II) that have diversified into several concurrent enzootic lineages. Since 1999, YFV genotype I has spread outside endemic regions and its recent (2017) reemergence in non-endemic Southeastern Brazilian states fuels one of the largest epizootic of jungle Yellow Fever registered in the country. To better understand...
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