Faculty, Staff and Student Publications
Publication Date
12-1-2022
Journal
Emerging Microbes & Infections
DOI
10.1080/22221751.2022.2114855
PMID
35993324
PMCID
PMC9518300
PubMedCentral® Posted Date
September 2022
PubMedCentral® Full Text Version
Post-print
Abstract
In 2021, twenty children exhibiting influenza-like illnesses were reported from a kindergarten in Shandong Province, China. Eleven genomes of Coxsackievirus A4 (CV-A4) were obtained from the pediatric cases, sharing <93% genome sequence identities with known CV-A4 strains. Further analyses suggested potential genetic recombination in the P3 region of the novel strains.
Keywords
Coxsackievirus A4, enterovirus, outbreak, recombination, phylogenetic characterization
Published Open-Access
yes
Recommended Citation
Li, Juan; Ni, Nan; Cui, Yanan; et al., "An Outbreak of a Novel Recombinant Coxsackievirus A4 in a Kindergarten, Shandong Province, China, 2021" (2022). Faculty, Staff and Student Publications. 1100.
https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/uthgsbs_docs/1100
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