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Toward unified molecular surveillance of RSV: A proposal for genotype definition.
Influenza and other respiratory viruses - 1 May 2020
Goya Stephanie, Galiano Mónica, Nauwelaers Inne, Trento Alfonsina, Openshaw Peter J, Mistchenko Alicia S, Zambon Maria, Viegas Mariana
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BACKGROUND: Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is classified into antigenic subgroups A and B. Thirteen genotypes have been defined for RSV-A and 20 for RSV-B, without any consensus on genotype definition. METHODS: We evaluated clustering of RSV sequences published in GenBank until February 2018 to define genotypes by using maximum likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic analyses and average p-distances....
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