Article
Characterization and Comparison of Genetic Variation in Clinical Varicella-Zoster Virus Isolates Collected from Shanghai and Urumqi, China.
Japanese journal of infectious diseases - 22 May 2020
Zhang Beibei, Xu Jin, Song Xu, Wang Tingting, Quan Zhe, Qian Miao, Liu Wei, Song Ningjing
Abstract excerpt
Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is a ubiquitous human herpesvirus that causes chickenpox and zoster. Considering that VZV is a relatively and genetically stable virus, its global surveillance clades provide essential information for VZV evolution, immigration, and importation of different viral strains and recombination events. Eighty-eight VZV isolates from China (Shanghai and Urumqi) were genotyped using a...
Topics
- China
- Genotype
- Geography
- Herpes Zoster
- Herpesvirus 3, Human
- Humans
- Open Reading Frames
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Prospective Studies
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
