Volume 11, Number 2—February 2005
Research
Novel Flavivirus or New Lineage of West Nile Virus, Central Europe
Tamás Bakonyi*†, Zdenek Hubálek‡, Ivo Rudolf‡, and Norbert Nowotny*§
Table 2
Sequences of West Nile virus (WNV) strains and other members of the Japanese encephalitis virus group used for phylogenetic analyses
| Virus name | Code | Accession no.* | Isolation |
WNV lineage, clade | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Host | Geographic origin | ||||
| WNV HNY1999 | NY99a | AF202541 | 1999 | Human | New York | 1a |
| WNV NY99flamingo38299 | NY99b | AF196835 | 1999 | Flamingo | New York | 1a |
| WNV IS98STD | Is98 | AF481864 | 1998 | Stork | Israel | 1a |
| WNV Italy1998Equine | It98 | AF404757 | 1998 | Horse | Italy | 1a |
| WNV RO9750 | Ro96 | AF260969 | 1996 | Culex pipiens | Romania | 1a |
| WNV VLG4 | Rus99a | AF317203 | 1999 | Human | Volgograd | 1a |
| WNV LEIV-Vlg99-27889 | Rus99b | AY277252 | 1999 | Human | Volgograd | 1a |
| WNV PaH001 | Tu97 | AY268133 | 1997 | Human | Tunisia | 1a |
| WNV PaAn001 | Fr00 | AY268132 | 2000 | Horse | France | 1a |
| WNV Eg101 | Eg51 | AF260968 | 1951 | Human | Egypt | 1a |
| WNV Chin-01 | Chin01 | AY490240 | Unknown | Unknown† | China | 1a |
| WNV Kunjin MRM61C | Kunjin | D00246 | 1960 | Cx. annulirostris | Australia | 1b |
| WNV Sarafend | Sarafend | AY688948 | Laboratory strain | 2 | ||
| WNV B956 (WNFCG) | Ug37 | M12294 | 1937 | Human | Uganda | 2 |
| WNV LEIV-Krnd88-190 | Rus98 | AY277251 | 1998 | Dermacentor marginatus | Caucasus | 4† |
| Rabensburg virus (97-103) | RabV | AY765264 | 1997 | Cx. pipiens | Czech Republic | 3† |
| Japanese encephalitis virus | JEV | NC_001437 | – | – | – | – |
| Murray Valley encephalitis virus | MVEV | NC_000943 | – | – | – | – |
| Usutu virus | USUV | AY453411 | – | – | – | – |
| Saint Louis encephalitis virus | SLEV | AF013416 | – | – | – | – |
| Alfuy virus | ALFV | AF013360 | – | – | – | – |
| Cacipacore virus | CPCV | AF013367 | – | – | – | – |
| Koutango virus | KOUV | AF013384 | – | – | – | – |
| Yaounde virus | YAOV | AF013413 | – | – | – | – |
*Partial nucleotide sequences (NS5 protein region) are indicated in italics.
†Unknown, tentative speciation.
