Clustering of haemagglutinin gene sequences of measles viruses isolated in the Gambia
Autor: | Assan Jaye, Hilton Whittle, Mark C. Outlaw, Craig R. Pringle |
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Rok vydání: | 1997 |
Předmět: |
Cancer Research
Genes Viral Molecular Sequence Data Hemagglutinins Viral Measles Homology (biology) Disease Outbreaks Evolution Molecular Measles virus Vaccine strain Virology parasitic diseases medicine Humans Gene Phylogeny Viral Structural Proteins Genetics biology Genetic heterogeneity Sequence Analysis DNA biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Infectious Diseases Multigene Family Geographic regions Gambia |
Zdroj: | Virus Research. 48:125-131 |
ISSN: | 0168-1702 |
Popis: | Partial nucleotide sequences of the haemagglutinin (H) gene of 18 measles viruses isolated in the Gambia during 1994 and 1995 show a high degree of homology (>98.5%) when compared with each other. These sequences form a cluster distinct from measles viruses isolated from other geographic regions and from the sequences of vaccine strains and two isolates from the Gambia from earlier years. Despite the low level of genetic heterogeneity observed, a common feature of the Gambian isolates is the prescence of three nucleotide changes (at positions 7963, 8649 and 8653) not observed in isolates from other locations. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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