Molecular characterisation of type 1 polioviruses associated with epidemics in South Africa.

doi:10.1002/(sici)1096-9071(199705)52:1<42::aid-jmv8>3.0.co;2-r

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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 amp...

Topics

Disease Outbreaks
Genotype
Humans
Phylogeny
Poliomyelitis
Poliovirus
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Sequence Analysis, DNA
South Africa

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