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SUBMITTER: Wei C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3466264 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wei Chengguo C Shi Jingwei J Liu Bin B Shi Yue Y Zheng Jingtong J Xu Guangyu G Ma Jinshu J Wang Guoqing G Li Fan F
PloS one 20121008 10
Measles remains a severe global health threat, and nearly 30 million new cases are reported annually. Although many studies have analyzed measles viruses (MV) at the epidemiologic and phylogenetic levels, no study has yet to integrate these two types of data. To this end, we isolated 16 wild-type MV strains China's Jilin province. The MV genotype H1 was the most prevalent strain. After sequencing the nucleoprotein (N) genes of these strains, a maximum clade credibility tree was constructed by th ...[more]