Molecular evolution of human echovirus 9 isolated from patients with aseptic meningitis in northern Kyushu during the summer of 1997.
An epidemic of aseptic meningitis caused by human echovirus 9 (E-9) occurred in the summer of 1997 in northern Kyushu, Japan. Sequences of genome position 2504-3358, which encoded a part of VP1, of the nine isolated viruses were determined. An RGD motif and B-C loop were found in all. They were almost identical and closely related to the virulent strain Barty.
Hara
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Department of Virology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan.
Kashiwagi
T
T
Ohtsu
Y
Y
Masunaga
K
K
Akasu-Tsuji
Y
Y
Tsumura
N
N
Kato
H
H
Iwahashi
J
J
Hamada
N
N
Toyoda
M
M
Toyoda
T
T
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D002213:Capsid / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D036022:Capsid Proteins; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004459:Echovirus 9 / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D004457:Echovirus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000821:virology*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008582:Meningitis, Aseptic / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000821:virology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
D036022:Capsid Proteins; C116597:echovirus 9 capsid protein vp1