Molecular epidemiology and changing distribution of genotypes of measles virus field strains in Japan.
Based on phylogenetic and restriction fragment length polymorphism analyses of the hemagglutinin and nucleoprotein gene sequences, measles virus strains obtained in western Japan were divided into two types. Type 1 isolates have largely replaced type 2 isolates during the last 10 years in the area surveyed.
Katayama
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Department of Microbiology, Kobe University School of Medicine, Japan.
Shibahara
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Kohama
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Homma
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Hotta
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D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D005814:Genes, Viral; D006389:Hemagglutinins, Viral / Q000235:genetics; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008457:Measles / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008459:Measles virus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D017720:Molecular Epidemiology / Q000379:methods*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D019590:Nucleocapsid Proteins; D009698:Nucleoproteins / Q000235:genetics; D010802:Phylogeny; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000235:genetics
D006389:Hemagglutinins, Viral; D019590:Nucleocapsid Proteins; D009698:Nucleoproteins; D014764:Viral Proteins; C032397:hemagglutinin protein G, measles virus; C058314:nucleoprotein, Measles virus