title: Wild type mumps viruses circulating in China establish a new genotype.
abstract: By analysing the nucleotide sequence of the SH genes of five mumps virus strains derived from the clinical specimens collected during the 1995/96 mumps epidemic in China a new genotype has been established. The circulating viruses showed divergence ranging from 0.8-4.5% at the nucleotide level and 3.5-12.3% at the amino acid level. In addition, a more rational approach has been taken in proposing genotype groupings to MuV strains.
authors.affiliation: Research Department of Virology, Lanzhou Institute of Biological Products, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Bai
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: B K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Rima
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Afzal
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D002681:China; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009107:Mumps / Q000821:virology*; D010802:Phylogeny; D019213:Rubulavirus / Q000235:genetics*; D012463:Saliva / Q000821:virology; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid