Volume 14, Number 3—March 2008
Research
Genetic Variability of West Nile Virus in US Blood Donors, 2002–2005
Andriyan Grinev*, Sylvester Daniel*, Susan Stramer†, Susan Rossmann‡, Sally Caglioti§, and Maria Rios*
Table 3
Deduced amino acid substitutions in 8 completely sequenced West Nile virus isolates compared with isolate WN-NY99*
| Isolate | NS4B |
NS5 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2488 | 2549 | 2755 | 2788 | 2820 | 2826 | 2842 | 3056 | 3104 | 3132 | 3191 | 3238 | 3240 | ||
| WN-NY99 | Ser | Lys | Gly | Asn | Ser | Glu | Lys | Pro | Arg | Arg | Met | Gln | Pro | Total |
| FDA/HU-02 | 5 | |||||||||||||
| ARC10–02 | Gly | 3 | ||||||||||||
| BSL5–03 | Arg | 6 | ||||||||||||
| BSL5–04 | Ser | Arg | Lys | Gln | 8 | |||||||||
| GCTX1–05 | Arg | Ser | Leu | Arg | Cys | Ser | Thr | 16 | ||||||
| GCTX2–05 | Ser | 3 | ||||||||||||
| BSL2–05 | Gly | Arg | Gln | 10 | ||||||||||
| BSL13–05 | Gly | Arg | Gln | 8 | ||||||||||
*NS, nonstructural.
