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Tick-borne encephalitis virus isolates from natural foci of the Irkutsk region: clarification of the genotype landscape.
Voprosy virusologii - 1 Jan 2000
Mel'nikova Ol'ga V, Adel'shin R V, Korzun V M, Trushina Yu N, Andaev E I
Abstract excerpt
The Irkutsk region is the unique territory where all known subtypes of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) circulate. In the last years, the phenomenon of changes in TBEV subtypes (substitution of the Far-Eastern subtype by the Siberian one) was noted in some regions of the Russian Federation. The results of individual investigation of 11522 Ixodes persulcatus ticks and brain specimens from 81 small mammals...
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