HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS		QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced] Author: Keyword(s): Year:  Vol:  Page:

This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Citation Map Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via CrossRef Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Matsuzaki, Y. Articles by Nakamura, K. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Matsuzaki, Y. Articles by Nakamura, K. Agricola Articles by Matsuzaki, Y. Articles by Nakamura, K.

Characterization of antigenically unique influenza C virus strains isolated in Yamagata and Sendai Cities, Japan, during 1992–1993

Department of Bacteriology, Yamagata University School of Medicine, Iida-Nishi, Yamagata 990-9585, Japan¹
Virus Research Center, Clinical Research Division, Sendai National Hospital, Sendai 983-8520, Japan²
Department of Public Health, Niigata University School of Medicine, Asahi-Machi Dori, Niigata 951-8510, Japan³

Author for correspondence: Yoko Matsuzaki. Fax +81 23 628 5250. e-mail matuzaki{at}med.id.yamagata-u.ac.jp

Three influenza C virus strains (C/Yamagata/1/92, C/Yamagata/1/93 and C/Miyagi/5/93) isolated in Yamagata and Sendai Cities, Japan, between June 1992 and May 1993 were found to possess haemagglutinin–esterase glycoproteins that were antigenically indistinguishable from one another but were clearly different from any previous Japanese isolates. To investigate the origin of the 1992/1993 strains, their antigenic and genetic properties were compared with those of eight strains isolated outside Japan between 1967 and 1982. The results showed that the 1992/1993 isolates were closely related to a virus isolated in Brazil in 1982 (C/SaoPaulo/378/82) and that these viruses (including C/SaoPaulo/378/82) are reassortants that had obtained PB1 and NP genes from a C/Yamagata/26/81-like parent and the other genes from another as yet unidentified parent.

This article has been cited by other articles:

				Y. Matsuzaki, C. Abiko, K. Mizuta, K. Sugawara, E. Takashita, Y. Muraki, H. Suzuki, M. Mikawa, S. Shimada, K. Sato, et al. A Nationwide Epidemic of Influenza C Virus Infection in Japan in 2004 J. Clin. Microbiol., March 1, 2007; 45(3): 783 - 788. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

				Y. Matsuzaki, K. Sato, K. Sugawara, E. Takashita, Y. Muraki, T. Morishita, N. Kumagai, S. Suzuki, and S. Hongo Isolation of an Influenza C Virus Introduced into Japan by a Traveler from Malaysia J. Clin. Microbiol., February 1, 2005; 43(2): 993 - 995. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

				Y. Matsuzaki, K. Mizuta, K. Sugawara, E. Tsuchiya, Y. Muraki, S. Hongo, H. Suzuki, and H. Nishimura Frequent Reassortment among Influenza C Viruses J. Virol., December 20, 2002; 77(2): 871 - 881. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

				Y. Matsuzaki, K. Sugawara, K. Mizuta, E. Tsuchiya, Y. Muraki, S. Hongo, H. Suzuki, and K. Nakamura Antigenic and Genetic Characterization of Influenza C Viruses Which Caused Two Outbreaks in Yamagata City, Japan, in 1996 and 1998 J. Clin. Microbiol., February 1, 2002; 40(2): 422 - 429. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

				F. S. B. Kibenge, M. J. T. Kibenge, P. K. McKenna, P. Stothard, R. Marshall, R. R. Cusack, and S. McGeachy Antigenic variation among isolates of infectious salmon anaemia virus correlates with genetic variation of the viral haemagglutinin gene J. Gen. Virol., December 1, 2001; 82(12): 2869 - 2879. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

				Z.-N. Li, S. Hongo, K. Sugawara, K. Sugahara, E. Tsuchiya, Y. Matsuzaki, and K. Nakamura The sites for fatty acylation, phosphorylation and intermolecular disulphide bond formation of influenza C virus CM2 protein J. Gen. Virol., May 1, 2001; 82(5): 1085 - 1093. [Abstract] [Full Text]