Article
Molecular characterisation of type 1 polioviruses associated with epidemics in South Africa.
Journal of medical virology - 1 May 1997
Chezzi C, Blackburn N K, Schoub B D
Abstract excerpt
The molecular epidemiology of wild-type 1 polioviruses isolated in South Africa during 2 major poliomyelitis epidemics in the 1980s and during the pre- and inter-epidemic periods was investigated by partial sequence analysis across the VP1/2A junction. Poliovirus-specific primers were used to amplify and subsequently sequence the region of interest. Viruses belonging to different genotypes were found to have been...
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