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SUBMITTER: Kim YJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7106136 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim You-Jin YJ Kim Dae-Won DW Lee Wan-Ji WJ Yun Mi-Ran MR Lee Ho Yeon HY Lee Han Saem HS Jung Hee-Dong HD Kim Kisoon K
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases 20140510
Human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) is the main cause of severe respiratory illness in young children and elderly people. We investigated the genetic characteristics of the circulating HRSV subgroup A (HRSV-A) to determine the distribution of genotype ON1, which has a 72-nucleotide duplication in attachment G gene. We obtained 456 HRSV-A positive samples between October 2008 and February 2013, which were subjected to sequence analysis. The first ON1 genotype was discovered in August 2011 an ...[more]