Volume 13, Number 10—October 2007
Dispatch
Emergence of Human Rotavirus Group A Genotype G9 Strains, Wuhan, China
Jihong Yang*†, Ting Wang*, Yang Wang†, Baojing Lu*, Xuan Bai†, Lei Zhang†, Ming Wang‡, and Hanzhong Wang*
Table 2
Comparison of the nucleotide and amino acid sequence identity of vp7 gene of Wuhan G9 rotavirus strain (CC597) with those of 11 known G9 rotavirus strains
| Strain | Similarity, % |
|
|---|---|---|
| Nucleotide | Amino acid | |
| XJ04–652 | 98.4 | 97.5 |
| XJ99–468 | 98.3 | 97.2 |
| BD524 | 96.0 | 93.9 |
| DE18 | 98.1 | 96.9 |
| R136 | 98.0 | 96.6 |
| KUMS04–5 | 98.2 | 96.0 |
| 02TW465 | 97.8 | 96.3 |
| MG9–06 | 97.9 | 96.6 |
| 608VN | 95.4 | 95.7 |
| S25 | 97.6 | 96.6 |
| JP32–4 | 90.7 | 92.3 |
