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Genetic Characterization of Yellow Fever Virus Strain JSS, the Original South American Strain.
Viruses - 15 May 2026
Lee Madison E, Hansen Clairissa A, Thompson Jill K, Hao Haiping, Bourne Nigel, Barrett Alan D T
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Yellow fever virus (YFV) is divided into seven genotypes, including West Africa II (WAII) and South America I (SAI). The first wild-type YFVs isolated, Asibi (Ghana/1927) and French Viscerotropic virus ([FVV] Senegal/1927), are members of WAII. The first YFV strain isolated in South America, JSS (Brazil/1935), was associated with the last outbreak of urban YF in Brazil and has been insufficiently studied. We...
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