Volume 20, Number 10—October 2014
Letter
Detection of Measles Virus Genotype B3, India
Vijesh S. Kuttiatt
, Sanughosh Kalpathodi, Sindhu T. Gangadharan, Lalitha Kailas, Easwaran Sreekumar, Suja M. Sukumaran, and Radhakrishnan R. Nair
, Sanughosh Kalpathodi, Sindhu T. Gangadharan, Lalitha Kailas, Easwaran Sreekumar, Suja M. Sukumaran, and Radhakrishnan R. Nair
Table
Details of the clinical samples used for genotype analysis of measles virus strains, Kerala, India, 2012
| Strain name* | Clinical details of patients |
GenBank accession no. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Sex | Measles vaccination status | Contact history | Complications | ||
| MVi/Thiruvananthapuram.IND/12.12[B3] | 11 mo | F | No | Yes | Pneumonia | KC997602 |
| MVs/Thiruvananthapuram.IND/14.12/1[B3] | 9 mo | M | No | Yes | Pneumonia | KC997603 |
| MVs/Thiruvananthapuram.IND/14.12/2[B3] | 3 y | M | Yes | Yes | None | KC997604 |
| MVi/Thiruvananthapuram.IND/14.12/3[B3] | 6 y | M | No | No | None | KC997605 |
| MVs/Thiruvananthapuram.IND/14.12/4[B3] | 7 mo | M | No | Yes | Pneumonia | KC997606 |
| MVi/Thiruvananthapuram.IND/15.12[B3] | 10 mo | M | Yes | Yes | None | KC997607 |
| MVs/Thiruvananthapuram.IND/30.12[B3] | 7 mo | F | No | No | Pneumonia | KC997608 |
| MVs/Thiruvananthapuram.IND/31.12/1[B3] | 9 mo | F | No | Yes | Pneumonia | KC997609 |
| MVs/Thiruvananthapuram.IND/31.12/2[B3] | 2 y | F | No | Yes | Pneumonia | KC997610 |
| MVs/Thiruvananthapuram.IND/34.12[D8] | 10 y | M | No | No | None | KC997611 |
*Named according to World Health Organization nomenclature following the scheme: measles virus (MV), isolate (i) or clinical specimen (s)/place. country/epidemiologic week.year/sample identity [genotype].
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