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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Lo MK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3310473 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Emerging infectious diseases 20120201 2
Nipah virus (NiV) is a highly pathogenic paramyxovirus that causes fatal encephalitis in humans. The initial outbreak of NiV infection occurred in Malaysia and Singapore in 1998-1999; relatively small, sporadic outbreaks among humans have occurred in Bangladesh since 2001. We characterized the complete genomic sequences of identical NiV isolates from 2 patients in 2008 and partial genomic sequences of throat swab samples from 3 patients in 2010, all from Bangladesh. All sequences from patients i ...[more]