Article
Molecular epidemiology of measles virus: identification of pathways of transmission and implications for measles elimination.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jan 1996
Rota J S, Heath J L, Rota P A, King G E, Celma M L, Carabaña J, Fernandez-Muñoz R, Brown D, Jin L, Bellini W J
Abstract excerpt
The nucleotide sequences of either the hemagglutinin or nucleoprotein genes from wild type measles viruses isolated in the United States between 1989 and 1992 differed by < 0.5%. This suggests that the majority of viruses associated with resurgence of measles in the United States belonged to a si...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- DNA Primers
- Disease Outbreaks
- Disease Transmission, Infectious
- Genotype
- Hemagglutinins, Viral
- Humans
- Measles
- Measles virus
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nucleoproteins
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- RNA, Viral
- United States