## Abstract We isolated 872 strains of mumps virus from naso‐pharyngeal secretions in seven different districts of Japan from January 2000 to July 2001. Among them, 57 strains were geno‐typed by nucleotide sequencing in part of the hemagglutinin‐neuraminidase (HN) and small hydrophobic (SH) protein
The molecular epidemiology of mumps virus
✍ Scribed by Kathrin Mühlemann
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 86 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1567-1348
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