Article: Molecular epidemiology of outbreaks in the Asia-Pacific region described.

2003 MAY 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A series of outbreaks of human enterovirus 71 (HEV71) occurred in the Asia-Pacific region during the period from 1997 through 2002.

University of Malaysia, Sarawak, researchers provided an overview of the regional molecular epidemiology of HEV71 in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.

"Phylogenetic analysis of the VP4 and VP1 genes of recent HEV71 strains indicates that several genogroups of the virus have been circulating in the Asia-Pacific region since 1997. The first of these recent outbreaks, described in Sarawak (Malaysian Borneo) in 1997, was caused by ...

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