Volume 16, Number 6—June 2010
Research
New Measles Virus Genotype Associated with Outbreak, China
Yan Zhang1, Zhengrong Ding1, Huiling Wang, Liqun Li, Yankun Pang, Kevin E. Brown, Songtao Xu, Zhen Zhu, Paul A. Rota, David Featherstone, and Wenbo Xu
Table 3
Genetic distances between proposed reference strain for genotype d11 (MVi/Menglian.Yunnan.CHN/47.09) and reference strains
| WHO reference strain, genotype: virus name | Genotype d11, % nucleotide divergence |
|
|---|---|---|
| Nucleoprotein gene | Hemagglutinin gene | |
| A: Edmonston-wt.USA/54 | 5.8 | 3.7 |
| B1:Yaounde.CAE/12.83 | 7.3 | 4.7 |
| B2: Libreville.GAB/84 | 7.8 | 5.6 |
| B3: New York.USA/94 | 7.1 | 5.2 |
| C1: Tokyo.JPN/84/K | 6.0 | 3.9 |
| C2: Maryland.USA/77 | 7.8 | 4.4 |
| D1: Bristol.UNK/74 | 4.4 | 4.0 |
| D2: Johannesburg.SOA/88/1 | 4.4 | 4.6 |
| D3: Illinois.USA/89/1 | 4.2 | 3.7 |
| D4: Montreal.CAN/89 | 4.7 | 3.0 |
| D5: Palau.BLA/93 | 3.8 | 3.5 |
| D6: New Jersey.USA/94/1 | 5.8 | 4.2 |
| D7: Victoria.AUS/16.85 | 3.3 | 3.0 |
| D8: Manchester.UNK/30.94 | 4.4 | 3.0 |
| D9: Victoria.AUS/12.99 | 4.9 | 3.5 |
| D10: Kampala.UGA/51.00/1 | 7.3 | 4.3 |
| E: Goettingen.DEU/71 | 6.4 | 4.5 |
| F: MVs/Madrid.SPA/94 SSPE | 6.4 | 4.4 |
| G1: Berkeley.USA/83 | 8.0 | 5.2 |
| G2: Amsterdam.NET/49.97 | 8.7 | 5.8 |
| G3: Gresik.INO/17.02 | 7.6 | 6.3 |
| H1: Hunan.CHN/93/7 | 7.6 | 6.6 |
| H2: Beijing.CHN/94/1 | 9.1 | 5.7 |
*WHO, World Health Organization; CAE, Cameroon; GAB, Gabon; JPN, Japan; UNK, United Kingdom; SOA, South Africa; CAN, Canada; AUS, Australia; UGA, Uganda; DEU, Germany; SPA, Spain; NET, the Netherlands; INO, Indonesia; CHN, China.
