Genetic study of Japanese encephalitis viruses from Vietnam

• Published in: The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene Vol. 49; no. 5; p. 538
• Main Authors: Huong, V T, Ha, D Q, Deubel, V
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.11.1993
• Subjects: Aedes; Amino Acid Sequence; Animals; Base Sequence; Cells, Cultured; Cluster Analysis; DNA Primers - chemistry; DNA, Viral - biosynthesis; DNA, Viral - chemistry; Encephalitis Virus, Japanese - classification; Encephalitis Virus, Japanese - genetics; Humans; Molecular Sequence Data; Mutation; Phylogeny; Polymerase Chain Reaction; RNA, Viral - chemistry; RNA, Viral - genetics; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; Vietnam; Vietnam

Two hundred eighty-five nucleotides from the capsid/premembrane gene region of 16 isolates of Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus from the southern and northern regions of Vietnam obtained during the period 1964-1988 were sequenced and compared with each other and with wild JE virus strains from China...