Tag Archive for PRO/AH/EDR> Yellow fever – Americas (46): Brazil, virus mutations
PRO/AH/EDR> Yellow fever – Americas (46): Brazil, virus mutations
Yellow Fever -- BrazilResearchers from the Owsaldo Cruz Institute have discovered that the virus from the latest outbreak of yellow fever in Brazil -- the largest since the Health Ministry began record keeping -- has a genetic sequence that has never been encountered before.Motivated by the extent of the current epidemic, they performed a complete genetic sequencing of the genome of the virus and discovered 8 mutations that had never been seen before in some of the genetic sequences.Of the variations, Read more [...]
