Single endemic genotype of measles virus continuously circulating in China for at least 16 years.

Single endemic genotype of measles virus continuously circulating in China for at least 16 years.

The incidence of measles in China from 1991 to 2008 was reviewed, and the nucleotide sequences from 1507 measles viruses (MeV) isolated during 1993 to 2008 were phylogenetically analyzed. The results showed that measles epidemics peaked approximately every 3 to 5 years with the range of measles case...

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Main Authors: Yan Zhang, Songtao Xu, Huiling Wang, Zhen Zhu, Yixin Ji, Chunyu Liu, Xiaojie Zhang, Liwei Sun, Jianhui Zhou, Peishan Lu, Ying Hu, Daxing Feng, Zhenying Zhang, Changyin Wang, Xueqiang Fang, Huanying Zheng, Leng Liu, Xiaodong Sun, Wei Tang, Yan Wang, Yan Liu, Hui Gao, Hong Tian, Jiangtao Ma, Suyi Gu, Shuang Wang, Yan Feng, Fang Bo, Jianfeng Liu, Yuan Si, Shujie Zhou, Yuyan Ma, Shengwei Wu, Shunde Zhou, Fangcai Li, Zhengrong Ding, Zhaohui Yang, Paul A Rota, David Featherstone, Youngmee Jee, William J Bellini, Wenbo Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3332093?pdf=render

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