1. Identical Genotype B3 Sequences from Measles Patients in 4 Countries, 2005
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Jennifer Rota, Luis Lowe, Paul A. Rota, William Bellini, Susan Redd, Gustavo Dayan, Rob van Binnendijk, Susan Hahné, Graham Tipples, Jeannette Macey, Rita Espinoza, Drew Posey, Andrew Plummer, John Bateman, José Gudiño, Edith Cruz-Ramirez, Irma Lopez-Martinez, Luis Anaya-Lopez, Teneg Holy Akwar, Scott Giffin, Verónica Carrión, Jan Felix Drexler, Andrea Vicari, Christina Tan, Bruce Wolf, Katherine Wytovich, Peter Borus, Francis Mbugua, Paul Chege, Janeth Kombich, Chantal Akoua-Koffi, Sheilagh Smit, Henry Bukenya, Josephine Bwogi, Frederick Ndhoga Baliraine, Jacques Kremer, Claude Muller, and Sabine Santibanez
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measles ,genotype ,epidemiology ,surveillance ,dispatch ,Kenya ,Medicine ,Infectious and parasitic diseases ,RC109-216 - Abstract
Surveillance of measles virus detected an epidemiologic link between a refugee from Kenya and a Dutch tourist in New Jersey, USA. Identical genotype B3 sequences from patients with contemporaneous cases in the United States, Canada, and Mexico in November and December 2005 indicate that Kenya was likely to have been the common source of virus.
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- 2006
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