Disease severity of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection correlate to a novel set of five amino acid substitutions in the RSV attachment glycoprotein (G) in China.

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Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is one of the major viruses of acute respiratory tract disease among infants and young children. We performed molecular epidemiology analysis of RSV among inpatient children in Guangzhou, China. Phylogenetic and Bayesian analysis showed that genotype ON1 was the only subgroup A virus in this study. Interestingly, the majority of Guangzhou ON1 strains formed a well-supported...

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