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SUBMITTER: Ternovoi VA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3000154 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Emerging infectious diseases 20030601 6
Eight fatal cases of tick-borne encephalitis with an unusual hemorrhagic syndrome were identified in 1999 in the Novosibirsk Region, Russia. To study these strains, we sequenced cDNA fragments of protein E gene from six archival formalin-fixed brain samples. Phylogenetic analysis showed tick-borne encephalitis variants clustered with a Far Eastern subtype (homology 94.7%) but not with the Siberian subtype (82%). ...[more]