Diversity and epidemiology of Mokola virus.

• Main Authors: Joe Kgaladi (Author), Nicolette Wright (Author), Jessica Coertse (Author), Wanda Markotter (Author), Denise Marston (Author), Anthony R Fooks (Author), Conrad M Freuling (Author), Thomas F Müller (Author), Claude T Sabeta (Author), Louis H Nel (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Mokola virus (MOKV) appears to be exclusive to Africa. Although the first isolates were from Nigeria and other Congo basin countries, all reports over the past 20 years have been from southern Africa. Previous phylogenetic studies analyzed few isolates or used partial gene sequence for analysis sinc...