CHARACTERISTICS OF STRAIN OF THE VIRUS OF TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS OF EUROPEAN GENOTYPE REVEALED IN THE WEST AND EAST SIBERIA
The molecular-genetic analysis of 13 strains of Western genotype TBEV isolated in Western and Eastern Siberia, demonstrated two groups of strains differed genetically from each other and had a high level of E gene sequences homology within each group. Nevertheless, the heterogeneity of biological properties for some strains within a group was observed.