Molecular and phylogenetic analyses of influenza B viruses isolated from pediatric inpatients in South Korea during the 2011-2012 winter season
- Authors
- Nam, Jeong-Hyun; Song, Eun-Jung; Song, Daesub; Espano, Erica; Shim, Sang-Mu; Jeong, Seo-Hee; Webster, Robert G.; Kim, Woo-Joo; Kim, Jeong-Ki
- Issue Date
- 12월-2017
- Publisher
- MICROBIOLOGY SOC
- Keywords
- Influenza B virus; phylogenetic analysis; molecular characterization
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY, v.98, no.12, pp.2950 - 2954
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY
- Volume
- 98
- Number
- 12
- Start Page
- 2950
- End Page
- 2954
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/81394
- DOI
- 10.1099/jgv.0.000983
- 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 1 63 influenza B virus isolates from pediatric inpatients with influenza-like illness in the winter of 2011-201 2 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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