Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Reassortant Group A Rotavirus from Straw-colored Fruit Bat (Eidolon helvum)

Mathew D. Esona, Slavica Mijatovic-Rustempasic, Christina Conrardy, Suxiang Tong, Ivan V. Kuzmin, Bernard Agwanda, Robert F. Breiman, Krisztian Banyai, Michael Niezgoda, Charles E. Rupprecht, Jon R. Gentsch, and Michael D. Bowen

Author affiliations: Author affilations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (M.D. Esona, S. Mijatovic-Rustempasic, C. Conrardy, S. Tong , I.V. Kuzmin, M. Niezgoda, C.E. Rupprecht, J.R. Gentsch, M.D. Bowen); National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya (B. Agwanda); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention–Kenya, Nairobi (R.F. Breiman); Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary (K. Banyai)

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Percentage nucleotide and deduced amino acid homologies of A) viral protein 7 (VP7), B) VP4, C) VP6, D) VP1, E) VP2, F) nonstructural protein 2 (NSP2), G) NSP3, H) NSP4, and I) NSP5 gene segments of bat rotavirus strain Bat/KE4852/07 from Kenya compared with respective genes deposited in GenBank. Vertical lines indicate nucleotide percentage identity cutoff values defining genotypes for 11 rotavirus gene segments (7,10). Blue diamonds indicate coordinates for each pairwise comparison when percen

Figure 1. Percentage nucleotide and deduced amino acid homologies of A) viral protein 7 (VP7), B) VP4, C) VP6, D) VP1, E) VP2, F) nonstructural protein 2 (NSP2), G) NSP3, H) NSP4, and I) NSP5 gene segments of bat rotavirus strain Bat/KE4852/07 from Kenya compared with respective genes deposited in GenBank. Vertical lines indicate nucleotide percentage identity cutoff values defining genotypes for 11 rotavirus gene segments (7,10). Blue diamonds indicate coordinates for each pairwise comparison when percentage nucleotide identity is plotted against percentage amino acid identity. GenBank accession numbers used in this comparison are listed in the Technical Appendix.

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