Molecular and phylogenetic analyses of influenza B viruses isolated from pediatric inpatients in South Korea during the 2011–2012 winter season
Nam, Jeong-Hyun and Song, Eun-Jung and Song, Daesub and Españo, Erica and Shim, Sang-Mu and Jeong, Seo-Hee and Webster, Robert G. and Kim, Woo-Joo and Kim, Jeong-Ki,, 98, 2950-2954 (2017),
doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.000983,
publicationName = Microbiology Society,
issn = 0022-1317,
abstract= Influenza B virus remains a major cause of respiratory diseases worldwide. Because of limited epidemiological and genetic data, the local and global transmission patterns of influenza B virus are not fully understood. Here we report the molecular and phylogenetic characterization of 163 influenza B virus isolates from pediatric inpatients with influenza-like illness in the winter of 2011–2012 in South Korea. Analysis of haemagglutinin and neuraminidase genes of the influenza B isolates revealed that both B/Victoria (62 %) and B/Yamagata lineages (38 %) co-circulated during that influenza season, and a considerable number of the isolates carried several amino acid substitutions in the four major antigenic epitopes of their haemagglutinin protein.,
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