An outbreak of Japanese encephalitis caused by genotype Ib Japanese encephalitis virus in China, 2018: A laboratory and field investigation.

• Main Authors: Wenjing Liu (Author), Shihong Fu (Author), Xuemin Ma (Author), Xiaojing Chen (Author), Dan Wu (Author), Liwei Zhou (Author), Qikai Yin (Author), Fan Li (Author), Ying He (Author), Wenwen Lei (Author), Yixing Li (Author), Songtao Xu (Author), Huaqing Wang (Author), Zhenhai Wang (Author), Huanyu Wang (Author), Hong Yu (Author), Guodong Liang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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Although Japanese encephalitis virus genotype Ib (JEV GIb) has replaced JEV GIII as the dominant genotype in endemic areas of Asia, no JEV GIb has been isolated from JE cases and natural mosquitoes at the same time in an outbreak of JE. In this study, we conducted virological and molecular biologica...