Genetic characterization of the hemagglutinin genes of wild-type measles virus circulating in china, 1993-2009.

BACKGROUND: China experienced several large measles outbreaks in the past two decades, and a series of enhanced control measures were implemented to achieve the goal of measles elimination. Molecular epidemiologic surveillance of wild-type measles viruses (MeV) provides valuable information about th...

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Main Authors: Songtao Xu, Yan Zhang, Zhen Zhu, Chunyu Liu, Naiying Mao, Yixin Ji, Huiling Wang, Xiaohong Jiang, Chongshan Li, Wei Tang, Daxing Feng, Changyin Wang, Lei Zheng, Yue Lei, Hua Ling, Chunfang Zhao, Yan Ma, Jilan He, Yan Wang, Ping Li, Ronghui Guan, Shujie Zhou, Jianhui Zhou, Shuang Wang, Hong Zhang, Huanying Zheng, Leng Liu, Hemuti Ma, Jing Guan, Peishan Lu, Yan Feng, Yanjun Zhang, Shunde Zhou, Ying Xiong, Zhuoma Ba, Hui Chen, Xiuhui Yang, Fang Bo, Yujie Ma, Yong Liang, Yake Lei, Suyi Gu, Wei Liu, Meng Chen, David Featherstone, Youngmee Jee, William J Bellini, Paul A Rota, Wenbo Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3779233?pdf=render