Hara K, Kashiwagi T, Ohtsu Y, Masunaga K, Akasu-Tsuji Y, Tsumura N, Kato H, Iwahashi J, Hamada N, Toyoda M, Toyoda T
Department of Virology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan.
Microbiol Immunol. 2001;45(10):717-20. doi: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2001.tb01306.x.
An epidemic of aseptic meningitis caused by human echovirus 9 (E-9) occurred in the summer of 1997 in northern Kyushu, Japan. Sequences of genome position 2504-3358, which encoded a part of VP1, of the nine isolated viruses were determined. An RGD motif and B-C loop were found in all. They were almost identical and closely related to the virulent strain Barty.