Shift in Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) genotype circulating in northern Vietnam: implications for frequent introductions of JEV from Southeast Asia to East Asia

Thi Nga, Phan; del Carmen Parquet, Maria; Duc Cuong, Vuong; Ma, Shao-Ping; Hasebe, Futoshi; Inoue, Shingo; Makino, Yoshihiro; Takagi, Masahiro; Sinh Nam, Vũ; Morita, Kouichi

doi:10.1099/vir.0.79797-0

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Shift in Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) genotype circulating in northern Vietnam: implications for frequent introductions of JEV from Southeast Asia to East Asia

Published in Journal of General Virology • May 27, 2004

Authors:

Phan Thi Nga

Maria del Carmen Parquet

Vuong Duc Cuong

Abstract

This study analyses the evolutionary relatedness of 16 Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) isolates (nine from Vietnam and seven from Japan) to previously published JEV strains using E gene sequence data. Vietnamese and Japanese strains isolated between 1986 and 1990 were found to cluster in genotype ...

Subject

Japanese encephalitis

Genotype

Biology

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