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Volume 24, Number 4—April 2018
Dispatch

Genetic Characterization of Enterovirus A71 Circulating in Africa

Maria Dolores Fernandez-Garcia1Comments to Author , Romain Volle1, Marie-Line Joffret, Serge Alain Sadeuh-Mba, Ionela Gouandjika-Vasilache, Ousmane Kebe, Michael R. Wiley, Manasi Majumdar, Etienne Simon-Loriere, Anavaj Sakuntabhai, Gustavo Palacios, Javier Martin, Francis Delpeyroux, Kader Ndiaye2, and Maël Bessaud2
Author affiliations: Institut Pasteur, Dakar, Senegal (M.D. Fernandez-Garcia, O. Kebe, K. Ndiaye); Institut Pasteur, Paris, France (R. Volle, M.-L. Joffret, E. Simon-Loriere, A. Sakuntabhai, F. Delpeyroux, M. Bessaud); Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, U994, Paris (R. Volle, M.-L. Joffret, F. Delpeyroux); Centre Pasteur, Yaoundé, Cameroon (S.A. Sadeuh-Mba); Institut Pasteur, Bangui, Central African Republic (I. Gouandjika-Vasilache); University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA (M.R. Wiley); US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland, USA (M.R. Wiley, G. Palacios); National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Hertfordshire, UK (M. Majumdar, J. Martin)

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Table

Description of enterovirus isolates from patients with acute flaccid paralysis in Africa that were sequenced for characterization of enterovirus A71

Strain (reference) Country of isolation Patient age at diagnosis, y Year Virus Genogroup or subgenogroup Genbank accession no.
14-157 (9) Senegal 3 2014 EV-A71 C2 MG672480
14-250 (9) Mauritania 1.6 2014 EV-A71 C2 MG672481
13-365 (9) Guinea 1.7 2013 EV-A71 C2 MG672479
15-355 (this study) Senegal 2.4 2015 EV-A71 C2 MG013988
13-194 (9) Niger 1.3 2013 EV-A71 E MG672478
03-008 (7) Central African Republic 1.9 2003 EV-A71 E LT719068
08-146 (8) Cameroon 2.6 2008 EV-A71 E LT719066
08-041(8) Cameroon 1.7 2008 EV-A71 C1 LT719067
14-254 (15)
 Senegal
 3
 2014
 CV-A14
 NA
 MG672482
*NA, not available.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

2These senior authors contributed equally to this article.

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