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Geographical genotypes (geotypes) of poliovirus case isolates from the former Soviet Union: relatedness to other known poliovirus genotypes.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Jul 1995
Lipskaya GYu, Chervonskaya E A, Belova G I, Maslova S V, Kutateladze T N, Drozdov S G, Mulders M, Pallansch M A, Kew O M, Agol V I
Abstract excerpt
A 150 nucleotide long region corresponding to adjoining segments of the genes encoding polypeptides VP1 and 2A of 84 poliovirus strains recently isolated from patients with paralytic poliomyelitis over the territory of the former Soviet Union (FSU) were characterized by sequencing and/or PCR amplification using specially designed primers. Eighteen isolates were found to be very closely related to one or another...
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