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 4
Nucleotide mutations conserved in fully sequenced West Nile virus isolates from 2002– 2005 epidemics in the United States compared with isolate WN-NY99*
| Isolate | Gene or region |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| preM |
Env |
NS2A |
NS3 |
NS4A |
NS4B |
NS5 |
3′-UTR |
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| Nucleotide no. |
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| 660 | 1442 | 2466 | 4146 | 4803 | 6138 | 6238 | 6426 | 6721 | 6996 | 7015 | 7938 | 8621 | 8811 | 9352 | 10851 | |
| WN-NY99 | C | T | C | A | C | C | C | C | G | C | T | T | A | T | C | A |
| FDA/HU-02 | C | T | G | T | T | T | C | C | C | T | G | |||||
| ARC10 2002 | C | T | G | T | T | T | T | C | C | C | T | G | ||||
| BSL5 2003 | T | C | T | G | T | T | T | T | C | C | G | C | T | G | ||
| BSL5 2004 | T | C | T | G | T | T | T | T | A | T | C | C | G | C | T | G |
| GCTX1 2005 | T | C | T | G | T | T | T | T | A | T | C | C | G | C | T | G |
| GCTX2 2005 | T | C | T | G | T | T | T | T | T | C | C | C | T | G | ||
| BSL2 2005 | T | C | T | G | T | T | T | T | A | T | C | C | C | T | G | |
| BSL13 2005 | T | C | T | G | T | T | T | T | A | T | C | C | G | C | T | G |
*preM, premembrane; Env, envelope; NS, nonstructural; UTR, untranslated region.
