Volume 13, Number 10—October 2007
Dispatch
Novel Variant of Tickborne Encephalitis Virus, Russia
Vladimir A. Ternovoi*, Elena V. Protopopova*, Eugene V. Chausov*, Dmitry V. Novikov†, Galina N. Leonova‡, Sergey V. Netesov*, and Valery B. Loktev*
Table 1
Tickborne encephalitis virus (TBEV) strains used in the study and comparison of identify for full-length polyprotein sequences with strains Glubinnoe/2004 of TBEV*
| Virus, subtype, strain | Place of origin | Year of isolation | Glubinnoe/2004 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| % Identity of nt sequence | % Identity of aa sequence | |||
| TBEV, Eastern type | ||||
| Glubinnoe/2004 | Glubinnoe, Primorsky district, Russia | 2004 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| 205 | Khabarovsk district, Russia | 1973 | 95.2 | 98.4 |
| Sofjin-HO | Khabarovsk district, Russia | 1937 | 94.9 | 98.3 |
| Oshima 5–10 | Oshima, Japan | 1995 | 94.7 | 98.2 |
| Senzhang | China | 1953 | 94.8 | 98.4 |
| MDJ-01 | China | 2003† | 94.6 | 98.0 |
| Vasilchenko | Novosibirsk, Russia | 1969 | 85.9 | 94.9 |
| Zausaev | Tomsk, Russia | 1985‡ | 85.9 | 94.9 |
| EK-328 |
Estonia |
1972 |
85.7 |
94.9 |
| TBEV, Western type | ||||
| Neudoerfl | Neudoerfl, Austria | 1971 | 84.3 | 93.4 |
| 263 | Temelin, Czech Republic | 1987 | 84.5 | 93.3 |
| Hypr |
Brno, Czech Republic |
1953 |
84.1 |
93.0 |
| TBEV, Turkish sheep type | ||||
| Turkish sheep encephalitis |
Turkey |
1969 |
82.9 |
91.0 |
| TBEV, Louping ill type | ||||
| Louping ill, strain 369/T2 | Selkirkshire, Scotland | 1929 | 83.2 | 91.0 |
| Spanish sheep encephalitis | Spain | 1987 | 82.7 | 91.0 |
*TBEV type classification described previously (3). nt, nucleotide; aa, amino acid.
†Time of submission of the sequence to GenBank.
‡Virus was isolated from a patient with chronic form of TBEV infection; a patient was infected in 1973 in Tomsk; the virus was isolated in Moscow in 1985 from brain.
