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SUBMITTER: Tipples GA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2738511 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tipples Graham A GA Stephens Gwen M GM Sherlock Chris C Bowler Margrit M Hoy Benny B Cook Darrel D Grose Charles C
Emerging infectious diseases 20021201 12
In 1998, a varicella-zoster virus glycoprotein E (gE) mutant virus (VZV-MSP) was isolated from a child with chickenpox. VZV-MSP, representing a second VZV serotype, was considered a rarity. We isolated another VZV-MSP-like virus from an elderly man with herpes zoster. These gE mutant viruses may have arisen through independent mutation or may represent a distinct VZV subpopulation that emerged more than 50 years ago. ...[more]