Volume 11, Number 3—March 2005
Dispatch
Japanese Encephalitis Virus in Meningitis Patients, Japan
Masaru Kuwayama*
, Mikako Ito†, Shinichi Takao*, Yukie Shimazu*, Shinji Fukuda*, Kazuo Miyazaki*, Ichiro Kurane†, and Tomohiko Takasaki†
, Mikako Ito†, Shinichi Takao*, Yukie Shimazu*, Shinji Fukuda*, Kazuo Miyazaki*, Ichiro Kurane†, and Tomohiko Takasaki†Table 1
Comparisons of the nucleotide sequences of Japanese encephalitis virus E gene detected in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) with reference Japanese encephalitis virus strains
| Patient number and length of sequence | Identity of nucleotide (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ishikawa* Genotype I (Ref. 5) | Shizuoka33* Genotype I (Ref. 6) | JaGAr#01* Genotype III(8) (Ref. 7) | Nakayama* Genotype III(8) (Ref. 8) | JKT7003* Genotype IV(9) (Ref. 9) | |
| 1 (326 bp) | 87.5 | 88.7 | 95.4 | 96.3 | 80.4 |
| 2 (247 bp) | 86.2 | 87.4 | 96.0 | 96.4 | 81.3 |
| 3 (21 bp) | 98.3 | 97.5 | 89.3 | 89.3 | 90.1 |
| 4 (187 bp) | 99.5 | 98.9 | 89.8 | 89.8 | 87.7 |
*GenBank accession numbers of these strains are AB051292, AB112703, U44964, U44966, and U70408.
