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Volume 16, Number 6—June 2010
Dispatch

Genetic Evidence for a Tacaribe Serocomplex Virus, Mexico

Catherine C. Inizan, Maria N. B. Cajimat, Mary Louise Milazzo, Artemio Barragán-Gomez, Robert D. Bradley, and Charles F. FulhorstComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA (C.C. Inizan, M.N.B. Cajimat, M.L. Milazzo, C.F. Fulhorst); Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, San Nicolas de los Garza, México (A. Barragán-Gomez); Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA (R.D. Bradley)

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Table 2

Nonidentities among the predicted amino acid sequences of the glycoprotein precursors and among the predicted amino acid sequences of the nucleocapsid proteins of the North American arenaviruses*

Virus† % Sequence nonidentity
AV H0030026 BBTV BCNV CTNV SKTV TAMV TTCV WWAV
AV H0030026 28.6 35.2 31.3 28.3 33.8 29.2 32.0–33.8
BBTV 12.3 33.8 27.5 26.8 35.4 26.4 30.6–33.7
BCNV 18.0 17.6 34.9 34.0 33.3 34.8 37.4–39.1
CTNV 11.6 10.1 17.8 29.4 36.1 30.0 32.4–34.2
SKTV 13.0 11.0 16.9 11.4 33.3 19.8 30.2–33.3
TAMV 21.0 19.4 21.4 18.5 19.0 35.2 38.0–40.6
TTCV 12.5 11.0 17.1 10.5 9.4 18.9 30.8–33.1
WWAV 13.7–15.5 10.7–13.0 18.3–20.5 12.6–14.6 13.9–15.5 19.2–20.8 13.0–14.1

*Numbers above and below the diagonal are the nonidentities among the glycoprotein precursors and nucleocapsid proteins, respectively.
†BBTV, Big Brushy Tank virus strain AV D0390174 (GenBank accession no. EF619035); BCNV, Bear Canyon virus strain AV A0070039 (AY924391); CTNV, Catarina virus strain AV A0400135 (DQ865244); SKTV, Skinner Tank virus strain AV D1000090 (EU123328); TAMV, Tamiami virus strain W 10777 (AF512828); TTCV, Tonto Creek virus strain AV D0150144 (EF619033); WWAV, Whitewater Arroyo virus strains AV 9310135 (AF228063), AV 96010024 (EU123331), AV 96010151 (EU123330), and AV D1240007 (EU123329). The results of a previous study indicated that AV 96010024, AV 96010151, and AV D1240007 are strains of WWAV or strains of arenaviruses that are phylogenetically closely related to WWAV (5). Nonidentities among the amino acid sequences of the glycoprotein precursors and among the amino acid sequences of the nucleocapsid proteins of AV 9310135, AV 96010024, AV 96010151, and AV D1240007 in this study ranged from 16.0% to 25.8% and 7.3% to 10.3%, respectively.

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