Nationwide Molecular Epidemiology of Measles Virus in Japan Between 2008 and 2017

Genotyping evidence that supports the interruption of endemic measles virus (MV) transmission is one of the essential criteria to be verified in achieving measles elimination. In Japan since 2014, MV genotype analyses have been performed for most of the measles cases in prefectural public health ins...

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Main Authors: Fumio Seki, Masahiro Miyoshi, Tatsuya Ikeda, Haruna Nishijima, Miwako Saikusa, Masae Itamochi, Hiroko Minagawa, Takako Kurata, Rei Ootomo, Jumboku Kajiwara, Takashi Kato, Katsuhiro Komase, Keiko Tanaka-Taya, Tomimasa Sunagawa, Kazunori Oishi, Nobuhiko Okabe, Hirokazu Kimura, Shigeru Suga, Kunihisa Kozawa, Noriyuki Otsuki, Yoshio Mori, Komei Shirabe, Makoto Takeda, Measles Virus Surveillance Group of Japan, Technical Support Team for Measles Control in Japan, Rika Komagome, Asami Ohnishi, Hiroyuki Saito, Mie Sasaki, Kenichi Komabayashi, Atsuko Kanari, Tsutomu Tamura, Kazunari Yamamoto, Kanako Ishikawa, Fuminori Mizukoshi, Hiroyuki Tsukagoshi, Yasutaka Ogawa, Takashi Nakada, Ai Kasuga, Tomoko Ogawa, Hajime Yokoi, Rieko Suzuki, Hideaki Shimizu, Satoko Kanazawa, Masayuki Oonuma, Nagano Environ, Kanako Nishizawa, Yuichiro Okamura, Asaka Ikegaya, Takaharu Maehata, Toshihiko Furuta, Masaya Nakazawa, Yoshihiro Yasui, Shinichiro Shibata, Tsuyoshi Kuzuguchi, Yasunori Tanaka, Hajime Kusuhara, Kayo Aoki, Sachi Hirata, Akiko Nagasao, Daiki Kanbayashi, Atsushi Kaida, Tatsuya Miyoshi, Miki Ogi, Taku Uemura, Shinya Kawanishi, Masaki Hiragakiuchi, Machi Inada, Takashi Nishiyama, Chika Tatsumi, Masako Hamano, Naoki Shigemoto, Fujii Yoshiki, Sachiko Murata, Yukari Terajima, Yumiko Kawakami, Yuki Ashizuka, Chinami Wasano, Misato Tachibana, Akiko Honda, Takashi Sakai, Kaori Nishizawa, Yu Matsuura, Mutsuyo Gokuden, Minori Oyama, Kenji Someya, Yuichiro Nakatsu, Maino Tahara, Kouji Sakai, Yukari Yamada, Kumi Ueno-Yamamoto, Yuki Tada, Tomoe Shimada, Kazuyo Yamashita, Hitomi Kinoshita, Takuri Takahashi, Kazutoshi Nakashima, Hajime Kamiya, Kiyosu Taniguchi, Yoshinori Yasui
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01470/full