| molecular epidemiological study of mumps epidemics of 2015 in okinawa, japan. | although major mumps epidemics occurred every 4-5 years in okinawa prefecture in japan, no laboratory diagnoses were conducted. a mumps epidemic started in okinawa in october 2014, and we collected clinical samples from 31 patients in 4 areas (hokubu, nanbu, miyako, and yaeyama) from july to december 2015, for virus isolation and rt-pcr, whose positive ratios were 52% and 87%, respectively. phylogenetic analyses showed that all isolates were classified into genotype g, and with one exception, co ... | 2017 | 28003601 |