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. 1994 Sep;32(9):2321–2323. doi: 10.1128/jcm.32.9.2321-2323.1994

Genome analysis of South American adenovirus strains of serotype 7 collected over a 7-year period.

A Kajon 1, G Wadell 1
PMCID: PMC263996  PMID: 7814570

Abstract

DNA restriction analysis was carried out on a sample of 212 epidemiologically unrelated adenovirus (Ad) strains of serotype 7 isolated in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina from nasopharyngeal aspirates of children with acute lower respiratory disease between 1984 and 1990. The identified genome types were Ad7b (n = 12), Ad7c (n = 21), and Ad7h (n = 179). The analysis of the occurrence of the three genome types throughout the study period revealed that Ad7c was the predominant virulent variant in 1984 and indicated that a shift to genome type 7h took place in 1986. Ad7b cocirculated with the other genomic variants at a relatively low frequence.

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