Volume 12, Number 10—October 2006
Dispatch
Siberian Subtype Tickborne Encephalitis Virus, Finland
Anu Jääskeläinen*
, Tapani Tikkakoski†, Nathalie Uzcátegui*, Andrey Alekseev‡, Antti Vaheri*§, and Olli Vapalahti*§¶
, Tapani Tikkakoski†, Nathalie Uzcátegui*, Andrey Alekseev‡, Antti Vaheri*§, and Olli Vapalahti*§¶Table 2
TBE virus strains compared by sequence analysis*
| Strain | Geographic origin | GenBank accession no. |
|---|---|---|
| Kokkola 4 | Location 1, Kokkola | DQ451297† |
| Kokkola 8 | Location 1, Kokkola | DQ451298,† DQ451286‡ |
| Kokkola 9 | Location 1, Kokkola | DQ451299,† DQ451287‡ |
| Kokkola 25 | Location 2, Kokkola | DQ451300,† ,DQ451288‡ |
| Kokkola 26 | Location 2, Kokkola | DQ451301,† DQ451289‡ |
| Kokkola 39 | Location 3, Kokkola | DQ451302,† DQ451290‡ |
| Kokkola 79 | Location 4, Kokkola | DQ451303†DQ451291‡ |
| Kokkola 81 | Location 4, Kokkola | DQ451304,†DQ451292‡ |
| Kokkola 84 | Location 4, Kokkola | DQ451305,†DQ451293‡ |
| Kokkola 85 | Location 4, Kokkola | DQ451306† |
| Kokkola 86 | Location 4, Kokkola | DQ451307,†DQ451294‡ |
| Kokkola 102 | Location 4, Kokkola | DQ451308,†DQ451295‡ |
| Kokkola 118 | Location 4, Kokkola | DQ451309,†DQ451296‡ |
| Iso40 | Isosaari, Finland | AJ298323 |
| Kumlinge A 52 | Åland, Finland | X60286 |
| Est54 | Estonia | DQ393773 |
| Est3535 | Estonia | DQ393774 |
| Est2546 | Estonia | DQ393779 |
| Est3476 | Estonia | DQ393776 |
| Latvia 1–96 | Latvia | AJ415565 |
| RK1424 | Latvia | AF091016 |
| Neudoerfl | Austria | U27495 |
| Hypr | Czech Republic | U39292 |
| 263 | Czech Republic | U27491 |
| Zausaev | Siberia, Russia | AF527415 |
| Vasilchenko | Novosibirsk, Russia | L40361 |
| Aina | Irkutsk, Russia | AF091006 |
| EK-328 | Estonia | DQ486861 |
| TBEV228 | Novosibirsk region, Russia | DQ385498 |
| TBEV1467 | Novosibirsk region, Russia | AY753582 |
| Sofjin-HO | Primorskii Kray, Russia | AB062064 |
| Oshima 5–10 | Hokkaido, Japan | AB062063 |
| LIV | United Kingdom | NC 001809 |
| OHFV, strain Bogoluvovska | Russia | AY193805 |
| Langat | Malaysia | AF253419 |
| Powassan, LB strain | United States | NC 003687 |
*TBE, tickborne encephalitis; LIV, Louping ill virus; OHFV, Omsk hemorrhagic fever virus.
†Accession no. for the partial NS5 gene sequence.
‡Accession no. for the partial E gene sequence.
