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SUBMITTER: Schuh AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2885061 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schuh Amy J AJ Li Li L Tesh Robert B RB Innis Bruce L BL Barrett Alan D T AD
The Journal of general virology 20090923 Pt 1
Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) consists of five genotypes (GI-V). Phylogenetic characterization of 16 JEV strains isolated from the 'USSR', Japan and Korea during the 1930-1970s revealed that 15 strains fell into GIII, confirming that GIII was the predominant genotype of JEV in Japan and Korea between 1935 (isolation of the prototype strain; a GIII virus) and the 1990s (when GI supplanted GIII). One of the Korean isolates fell into GII, demonstrating that GII has been circulating for at least ...[more]