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Novel measles virus genotype, East Timor and Australia
Doris Chibo1, Michaela Riddell, Michael Catton
1World Health Organization Regional Measles Reference Laboratory for the Western Pacific Region, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|July 4, 2002
Abstract:
Measles outbreaks in 1999 in Queensland and Victoria, Australia, were caused by a novel strain of clade G virus (proposed name g3). Epidemiologic and molecular evidence supports independent circulation of this virus in Queensland, northern Australia, in addition to importation of the virus by East Timor refugees seeking safe haven in Australia.