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 3
Nucleotide and amino acid identity rates between RabV* and other flaviviruses
| Code | WNV lineage and clade | Identity to RabV (%) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nucleotide | Amino acid | ||||
| Complete | Partial† | Complete | Partial‡ | ||
| NY99a | 1a | 77 | 78 | 90 | 95 |
| NY99b | 1a | 77 | 78 | 90 | 95 |
| Is98 | 1a | 77 | 78 | 90 | 95 |
| It98 | 1a | 77 | 78 | 90 | 95 |
| Ro96 | 1a | 77 | 78 | 90 | 95 |
| Rus99a | 1a | 77 | 78 | 90 | 95 |
| Rus99b | 1a | 77 | 78 | 90 | 95 |
| Tu97 | 1a | 76 | 78 | 90 | 95 |
| Fr00 | 1a | 77 | 78 | 90 | 95 |
| Eg51 | 1a | 77 | 78 | 90 | 95 |
| Chin01 | 1a | 77 | 78 | 90 | 95 |
| Kunjin | 1b | 75 | 77 | 89 | 94 |
| Sarafend | 2 | 77 | 78 | 90 | 96 |
| Ug37 | 2 | 77 | 78 | 90 | 96 |
| Rus98 | 4 (speculation) | 73 | 77 | 87 | 95 |
| JEV | – | 68 | 74 | 75 | 86 |
| MVEV | – | 69 | 74 | 76 | 86 |
| USUV | – | 68 | 72 | 75 | 83 |
| SLEV | – | – | 71 | – | 78 |
| ALFV | – | – | 74 | – | 88 |
| CPCV | – | – | 71 | – | 79 |
| KOUV | – | – | 76 | – | 90 |
| YAOV | – | – | 75 | – | 87 |
*RabV, Rabensburg virus; JEV, Japanese encephalitis virus; MVEV, Murray Valley encephalitis virus; USUV, Usutu virus; SLEV, St. Louis encephalitis virus; ALFV, Alfuy virus; CPCV, Cacipacore virus; KOUV, Koutango virus; YAOV, Yaounde virus.
†Partial alignment between nucleotide positions 9067 and 10101.
‡Partial alignment between amino acid positions 2991 and 3335.
