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In this study, human enterovirus C117 (EV-C117) was detected in a 3-month-old boy diagnosed with pneumonia in China. A phylogenetic analysis showed that this strain was genetically closer to the Lithuanian strain than to the USA strain.
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This study was supported by China Mega-Project for Infectious Diseases Grant (2017ZX10103004, 2018ZX10713002 and 2018ZX10101003), the Natural Science Foundation of China (81703274), and Peking University Medicine Seed Fund for Interdisciplinary Research (BMU2018MX009).
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Phylogenetic trees constructed based on 5’UTR, VP4, VP2, VP3, 2A, 2B, 2C, 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D and 3’UTR sequences by the maximum-likelihood method in MEGA 7.0. The isolate from the present study is indicated by a black filled circle. (TIFF 1350 kb)
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Du, J., Zhu, T., Zhuang, L. et al. Identification and complete genome characterization of human enterovirus 117 from a child with pneumonia in China. Arch Virol 164, 1489–1492 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-019-04196-y
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