Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Detection and Molecular Characterization of a Canine Norovirus

Vito Martella*

, Eleonora Lorusso*, Niccola Decaro*, Gabriella Elia*, Arianna Radogna*, Maria D’Abramo*, Costantina Desario*, Alessandra Cavalli*, Marialaura Corrente*, Michelle Camero*, Cinzia A. Germinario*, Krisztian Bányai†, Barbara Di Martino‡, Fulvio Marsilio‡, Leland E. Carmichael§, and Canio Buonavoglia*

Author affiliations: *University of Bari, Bari, Italy; †Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary; ‡Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA; §University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy;

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Figure 2. Phylogenetic tree constructed on the full-length amino acid sequence of the capsid protein. The tree was constructed by using a selection of norovirus (NoV) strains representative of the genogroups I to V. Phylogenetic analysis (neighbor-joining) with bootstrap analysis (1,000 replicates) and Kimura 2-parameter correction was conducted by using the MEGA software package version 3.0 (14). Strains designation follows the outlines of Wang et al. (10) and Zheng et al. (13). Bo, bovine; po, porcine; mu, murine; hu, human; ca canine.

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