Laboratory testing and phylogenetic analysis during a mumps outbreak in Ontario, Canada

L'Huillier, Arnaud; Eshaghi, Alireza; Racey, C Sarai; Ogbulafor, Katherene; Lombos, Ernesto; Higgins, Rachel R; Alexander, David C; Kristjanson, Erik; Maregmen, Jocelyn; Gubbay, Jonathan B; Mazzulli, Tony

doi:10.1186/s12985-018-0996-5

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Laboratory testing and phylogenetic analysis during a mumps outbreak in Ontario, Canada

ContributorsL'Huillier, Arnaud

; Eshaghi, Alireza; Racey, C Sarai; Ogbulafor, Katherene; Lombos, Ernesto; Higgins, Rachel R; Alexander, David C; Kristjanson, Erik; Maregmen, Jocelyn; Gubbay, Jonathan B; Mazzulli, Tony

Published inVirology Journal, vol. 15, no. 1, 98

Publication date2018

Abstract

In September 2009, a mumps outbreak originated in New York and spread to Northeastern USA and Canada. This study compares the performance of different diagnostic testing methods used in Ontario and describes molecular characteristics of the outbreak strain.

Keywords

Clinical Laboratory Techniques
Disease Outbreaks
HN Protein/genetics
Humans
Immunoglobulin M/blood
Mumps/diagnosis/epidemiology/virology
Mumps virus/classification/genetics
New York/epidemiology
Ontario/epidemiology
Phylogeny
RNA
Viral/genetics
Sequence Homology
Amino Acid
Sequence Homology
Nucleic Acid

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Not a UNIGE publication

Research groups

Recherche en infectiologie pédiatrique et en pédiatrie générale (853)

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L’HUILLIER, Arnaud et al. Laboratory testing and phylogenetic analysis during a mumps outbreak in Ontario, Canada. In: Virology Journal, 2018, vol. 15, n° 1, p. 98. doi: 10.1186/s12985-018-0996-5

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PID : unige:128279
DOI : 10.1186/s12985-018-0996-5
PMID : 29866178

Journal ISSN1743-422X

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Laboratory testing and phylogenetic analysis during a mumps outbreak in Ontario, Canada

In September 2009, a mumps outbreak originated in New York and spread to Northeastern USA and Canada. This study compares the performance of different diagnostic testing methods used in Ontario and describes molecular characteristics of the outbreak strain.

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