TY - JOUR
T1 - Genotyping and subtyping of mumps virus isolates from the Indian subcontinent
AU - Mishra, Baijayantimala
AU - Pujhari, Sujit Kumar
AU - Dhiman, Vandana
AU - MahaLakshmi, P.
AU - Bharadwaj, Abhinav
AU - Pokhrel, Sandeep
AU - Sharma, Deepak
AU - Sharma, Mirnalini
AU - Bhatia, Deepak
AU - Ratho, Radha Kanta
PY - 2013/11
Y1 - 2013/11
N2 - Mumps is a vaccine-preventable disease that usually occurs as a self-limiting parotitis, but it can also lead to several life-threatening complications, including pancreatitis, meningitis, and encephalitis. The molecular epidemiology of the virus is poorly understood. The present study describes an outbreak of mumps virus infection in Punjab, India. The etiology was confirmed by serology and RNA detection to be mumps virus in 72 % of the cases and 50 % of contacts. This study, for the first time, revealed the mumps virus genotypes circulating in the Indian subcontinent as subtype G2 of genotype G.
AB - Mumps is a vaccine-preventable disease that usually occurs as a self-limiting parotitis, but it can also lead to several life-threatening complications, including pancreatitis, meningitis, and encephalitis. The molecular epidemiology of the virus is poorly understood. The present study describes an outbreak of mumps virus infection in Punjab, India. The etiology was confirmed by serology and RNA detection to be mumps virus in 72 % of the cases and 50 % of contacts. This study, for the first time, revealed the mumps virus genotypes circulating in the Indian subcontinent as subtype G2 of genotype G.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00705-013-1717-4
DO - 10.1007/s00705-013-1717-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 23685897
AN - SCOPUS:84886717732
SN - 0304-8608
VL - 158
SP - 2359
EP - 2363
JO - Archives of Virology
JF - Archives of Virology
IS - 11
ER -
