Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Hepatitis E Virus in Pork Production Chain in Czech Republic, Italy, and Spain, 2010

Ilaria Di Bartolo¹, Marta Diez-Valcarce¹, Petra Vasickova¹, Petr Kralik, Marta Hernandez, Giorgia Angeloni, Fabio Ostanello, Martijn Bouwknegt, David Rodríguez-Lázaro, Ivo Pavlik, and Franco Maria Ruggeri

Author affiliations: Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy (I. Di Bartolo, G. Angeloni, F.M. Ruggeri); Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de Castilla y León, Junta de Castilla y León Valladolid, Spain (M. Diez-Valcarce, M. Hernandez, D. Rodríguez-Lázaro); Veterinary Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic (P. Vasickova, P. Kralik, I. Pavlik); University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy (F. Ostanello); and National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands (M. Bouwknegt)

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Figure A1

Phylogenetic tree constructed with the Bionumerics version 6 software (Applied Maths, Kortrijk, Belgium) by the neighbor-joining method on the basis of partial nucleotide sequences of open reading frame 2, with avian hepatitis E virus as an outgroup (GenBank accession no. AY043166). Samples are from Italy and Spain, 2010. Bootstrap values of >60% are indicated. ● indicates sequences from Spain; ◉ indicates sequences from Italy. Subtypes of genotype 3 HEV strains are indicated. Scale bar indic

Figure A1. . . Phylogenetic tree constructed with the Bionumerics version 6 software (Applied Maths, Kortrijk, Belgium) by the neighbor-joining method on the basis of partial nucleotide sequences of open reading frame 2, with avian hepatitis E virus as an outgroup (GenBank accession no. AY043166). Samples are from Italy and Spain, 2010. Bootstrap values of >60% are indicated. ● indicates sequences from Spain; ◉ indicates sequences from Italy. Subtypes of genotype 3 HEV strains are indicated. Scale bar indicates number of substitutions per site.

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¹These authors contributed equally to this article.

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