Volume 11, Number 12—December 2005
Research
Postepizootic Persistence of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus, Venezuela
Juan-Carlos Navarro*, Gladys Medina†, Clovis Vasquez‡, Lark L. Coffey§, Eryu Wang§, Alexander Suárez*‡, Hernán Biord#, Marlene Salas¶, and Scott C. Weaver§
Table 5
Sequence comparisons between the year 2000 VEEV virus equine isolates and those from the 1995 epidemic*
| Virus strain† | State of isolation | Horse sample | Date of collection | Passage history | Comparisons to 1995 strain 6119 |
Comparisons to 1995 strain 3908 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nt differences‡ | aa differences§ | nt differences¶ | aa differences# | |||||
| 254934 | Barinas | Brain | Apr 10, 2000 | sm-1 | C1248T | – | A1443G | – |
| G6325A | nsP4/V208I | T4975C | ||||||
| G9165A | E2/E199K | C5292T | – | |||||
| T10913C | – | T5475C | – | |||||
| C11237T | – | G6325A | nsP4/V208I | |||||
| A6498T | – | |||||||
| G9159A | E2/E199K | |||||||
| C11237T | – | |||||||
| 255010 | Barinas | Serum | Feb 20, 2000 | sm-2 | C1248T | – | A1443G | – |
| T10913C | – | T4975C | – | |||||
| C11237T | – | C5292T | – | |||||
| T5475C | – | |||||||
| A6498T | – | |||||||
| G9159A | E2/E199K | |||||||
| C11237T | – | |||||||
| 255005* | Barinas | Serum | Feb 20, 2000 | sm-3 | 0 | – | 0 | – |
| 255057* | Carabobo | Brain | April, 2000 | sm-1, V-1 | 0 | – | 0 | – |
*VEEV, Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus; nt, nucleotide; aa, amino acid.
†Only partial PE2 envelope glycoprotein precursor gene sequences determined (817 nucleotides).
‡Strain 6119 residue is indicated first, followed by genome position and year 2000 strain residue.
§Strain 6119 residue is indicated first, followed by protein and amino acid position and year 2000 strain residue.
¶Strain 3908 residue is indicated first, followed by genome position and year 2000 strain residue.
#Strain 3908 residue is indicated first, followed by protein and amino acid position and year 2000 strain residue.
