This study reports on molecular analysis of a Measles virus (MV) isolate from a 
patient who was infected in Japan but showed symptoms after arriving to Brazil. 
This patient had typical clinical measles infection symptoms: fever, rash, cough 
and coryza. After isolating the virus in B95a cells, a fragment of the 
nucleoprotein (N) gene was amplified by reverse transcription-polymerase chain 
reaction (RT-PCR) and subjected to direct nucleotide sequencing. The sequence 
data showed that the MV isolate of concern is of the D5 genotype.