1. Novel Variant of Tickborne Encephalitis Virus, Russia
- Author
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Valery B. Loktev, E. V. Chausov, Sergey V. Netesov, Vladimir A. Ternovoi, Elena V. Protopopova, Galina N. Leonova, and Dmitry V. Novikov
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Male ,Microbiology (medical) ,Fatal outcome ,Adolescent ,Genotype ,Epidemiology ,Tickborne encephalitis virus ,lcsh:Medicine ,Biology ,polyprotein sequence ,Virus ,Encephalitis Viruses, Tick-Borne ,Russia ,lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases ,TBEV ,Fatal Outcome ,flavivirus ,Phylogenetics ,Humans ,lcsh:RC109-216 ,Base sequence ,Amino Acid Sequence ,Peptide sequence ,Phylogeny ,Genetics ,Base Sequence ,lcsh:R ,Dispatch ,human lethal cases ,Virology ,Infectious Diseases ,genotyping ,Tickborne encephalitis ,Encephalitis, Tick-Borne - Abstract
We isolated a novel strain of tickborne encephalitis virus (TBEV), Glubinnoe/2004, from a patient with a fatal case in Russia. We sequenced the strain, whose landmark features included 57 amino acid substitutions and 5 modified cleavage sites. Phylogenetically, Glubinnoe/2004 is a novel variant that belongs to the Eastern type of TBEV.
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- 2007