Volume 17, Number 8—August 2011
Dispatch
Enterovirus 68 in Children with Acute Respiratory Tract Infections, Osaka, Japan
Atsushi Kaida
, Hideyuki Kubo, Jun-ichiro Sekiguchi, Urara Kohdera, Masao Togawa, Masashi Shiomi, Toshinori Nishigaki, and Nobuhiro Iritani
, Hideyuki Kubo, Jun-ichiro Sekiguchi, Urara Kohdera, Masao Togawa, Masashi Shiomi, Toshinori Nishigaki, and Nobuhiro IritaniTable 2
Comparison of nucleotide and amino acid sequences of Osaka enterovirus 68 strains detected in Osaka, Japan, October 2009–October 2010, with Fermon and 37–99 strains*
| Region | Nucleotide identity, % |
Amino acid identity, % |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Osaka strains | Fermon | 37–99 | Osaka strains | Fermon | 37–99 | ||
| VP4–3D | 98.4–99.6 | 87.8–87.9 | 93.9–94.1 | 99.4–99.8 | 95.8–96.0 | 98.4–98.7 | |
| VP4 | 97.5–100 | 90.8–91.7 | 94.6–95.6 | 100 | 100 | 100 | |
| VP2 | 97.5–99.7 | 87.3–87.7 | 94.4–94.6 | 100 | 94.3 | 99.1 | |
| VP3 | 97.7–99.7 | 85.5–85.8 | 93.9–94.4 | 99.5–100 | 94.0–94.4 | 98.7–99.1 | |
| VP1 | 97.7–99.8 | 87.5–87.8 | 92.5–93.2 | 99.0–100 | 90.6–90.9 | 95.4–96.1 | |
| 2A | 96.5–99.7 | 86.6–87.5 | 93.1–93.6 | 98.6–100 | 97.2–97.9 | 99.3–100 | |
| 2B | 96.6–99.6 | 83.5–85.8 | 91.9–92.5 | 98.9–100 | 96.9–97.9 | 97.9–98.9 | |
| 2C | 98.7–99.6 | 89.0–89.2 | 94.5–94.7 | 100 | 97.8 | 99 | |
| 3A | 99.6–100 | 89.5–89.8 | 94.0–94.3 | 98.8–100 | 96.6–97.7 | 98.8–100 | |
| 3B | 98.4–100 | 87.8–89.3 | 96.9–98.4 | 100 | 100 | 100 | |
| 3C | 98.2–99.3 | 87.0–87.7 | 92.4–93.2 | 99.0–100 | 96.2–96.7 | 98.1–98.5 | |
| 3D | 99.0–99.6 | 88.6–88.9 | 94.6–95.0 | 99.0–100 | 97.4–97.8 | 98.3–99.0 | |
*Osaka strains, JPOC10-290, JPOC10-378, JPOC10-396, and JPOC10-404; VP, viral protein.
