Molecular Comparison and Evolutionary Analyses of VP1 Nucleotide Sequences of New African Human Enterovirus 71 Isolates Reveal a Wide Genetic Diversity

• Maël Bessaud ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maël Bessaud, Richter Razafindratsimandresy, Xavier de Lamballerie, Francis Delpeyroux, Jean-Luc Bailly

  * E-mail: bessaud@laposte.net

  Affiliation Aix Marseille Univ, IRD French Institute of Research for Development, EHESP French School of Public Health, UMR_D 190 “Emergence des Pathologies Virales”, Marseille, France

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• Richter Razafindratsimandresy ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maël Bessaud, Richter Razafindratsimandresy, Xavier de Lamballerie, Francis Delpeyroux, Jean-Luc Bailly

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Unité de Virologie, Antananarivo, Madagascar

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• Antoine Nougairède,

  Affiliation Aix Marseille Univ, IRD French Institute of Research for Development, EHESP French School of Public Health, UMR_D 190 “Emergence des Pathologies Virales”, Marseille, France

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• Marie-Line Joffret,

  Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Unité de biologie des virus entériques, Paris, France, INSERM U994, Paris, France

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• Jagadish M. Deshpande,

  Affiliation Enterovirus Research Centre, Mumbai, India

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• Audrey Dubot-Pérès,

  Affiliations Aix Marseille Univ, IRD French Institute of Research for Development, EHESP French School of Public Health, UMR_D 190 “Emergence des Pathologies Virales”, Marseille, France, Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao PDR, Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Jean-Michel Héraud,

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Unité de Virologie, Antananarivo, Madagascar

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• Xavier de Lamballerie ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maël Bessaud, Richter Razafindratsimandresy, Xavier de Lamballerie, Francis Delpeyroux, Jean-Luc Bailly

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Aix Marseille Univ, IRD French Institute of Research for Development, EHESP French School of Public Health, UMR_D 190 “Emergence des Pathologies Virales”, Marseille, France

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• Francis Delpeyroux ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maël Bessaud, Richter Razafindratsimandresy, Xavier de Lamballerie, Francis Delpeyroux, Jean-Luc Bailly

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Unité de biologie des virus entériques, Paris, France

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• Jean-Luc Bailly

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maël Bessaud, Richter Razafindratsimandresy, Xavier de Lamballerie, Francis Delpeyroux, Jean-Luc Bailly

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Clermont Université, Université d'Auvergne, EPIE EA4843, Clermont-Ferrand, France

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