Molecular Characterization of Wild Type Measles Virus from Adult Patients in Northern China, 2014

Measles is the leading cause of vaccine-preventable childhood morbidity and mortality globally,1 and remains a major public health concern in China because of frequent outbreaks. The measles virus (MeV), a member of the genus Morbillivirus of the family Paramyxoviridae is an enveloped virus with a non-segmented negative-sense RNA genome.2 MeV is highly contagious and causes a disease characterized by high fever, cough, coryza, conjunctivitis and appearance of a maculopapular rash.

Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - February 16, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Wen Xu, Ming-Xiang Zhang, En-Qiang Qin, Ying-Chun Yan, Feng-Yi Li, Zhe Xu, Xia Tian, Rong Fan, Bo Tu, Wei-Wei Chen, Min Zhao Source Type: research