Molecular biological characterization of enterovirus variant isolated from patients with aseptic meningitis.

doi:10.1038/emm.1998.15

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Molecular biological characterization of enterovirus variant isolated from patients with aseptic meningitis.

Experimental & molecular medicine - 30 Jun 1998

Jung Y T, Kim G R, Paik S Y

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In Korea, there was a big outbreak of aseptic meningitis in 1993. Six clinical isolates of enterovirus were obtained from patients with aseptic meningitis and were identified as echovirus type 9 by serotyping with a pool of neutralizing antisera. For molecular characterization of the isolates, th...

Topics

5' Untranslated Regions
Base Sequence
Capsid
Capsid Proteins
Cysteine Endopeptidases
Echovirus 9
Genetic Variation
Genome, Viral
Humans
Meningitis, Aseptic
Molecular Sequence Data
RNA Helicases
Viral Proteins

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