Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

High Diversity of RNA Viruses in Rodents, Ethiopia

Yonas Meheretu¹, Dagmar Čížková¹, Jana Těšíková, Kiros Welegerima, Zewdneh Tomas, Dawit Kidane, Kokob Girmay, Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit, Josef Bryja, Stephan Günther, Anna Bryjová, Herwig Leirs, and Joëlle Goüy de Bellocq

Author affiliations: Author affiliations: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Brno, Czech Republic (Y. Meheretu, D. Čížková, J. Těšíková, J. Bryja, A. Bryjová, J. Goüy de Bellocq); Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia (Y. Meheretu, K. Welegerima, Z. Tomas, D. Kidane, K. Girmay); University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium (Y. Meheretu, H. Leirs, J. Goüy de Bellocq); Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany (J. Schmidt-Chanasit, S. Günther)

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Maximum-likelihood tree of hantaviruses showing the position of the 4 sequences of Tigray hantavirus (boldface; GenBank accession nos. JQ956484–JQ956487) found in kidney samples of Ethiopian white-footed mice (Stenocephalemys albipes). The tree was constructed on the basis of analysis of partial sequences of the RNA polymerase gene; phylogeny was estimated by using the maximum-likelihood method with the general time reversible + I + Γ (4 rate categories) substitution model to account for rate he

Figure 2. . Maximum-likelihood tree of hantaviruses showing the position of the 4 sequences of Tigray hantavirus (boldface; GenBank accession nos. JQ956484–JQ956487) found in kidney samples of Ethiopian white-footed mice (Stenocephalemys albipes). The tree was constructed on the basis of analysis of partial sequences of the RNA polymerase gene; phylogeny was estimated by using the maximum-likelihood method with the general time reversible + I + Γ (4 rate categories) substitution model to account for rate heterogeneity across sites as implemented in the PhyML program (8). Numbers represent percentage bootstrap support (1,000 replicates). Underlining indicates hantaviruses found in Africa. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site. GenBank accession numbers of the virus strains: AB620030, NC_003468, EU929078, EF619961, JF276228, EF540771, EF543525, EF397003, NC_005235, AB620033, JN037851, FJ170809, FJ170812, AB620108, EF641807, FJ593501, GQ306150, AF005729, EU788002, AB620102, FJ593498, FJ593497, EF646763, NC_005225, GU566021, FJ809772, HM015221, AJ410618, DQ268652, JQ082305, EU424336, NC_005238, AM998806, NC_005217, DQ056292, EF050454, JN116261, EU001330, AJ005637, JQ287716.

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¹These authors contributed equally to this article.

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