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Volume 20, Number 12—December 2014
Dispatch

Putative New West Nile Virus Lineage in Uranotaenia unguiculata Mosquitoes, Austria, 2013

Karin Pachler1, Karin Lebl, Dominik Berer, Ivo Rudolf, Zdenek Hubalek, and Norbert NowotnyComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria (K. Pachler, K. Lebl, D. Berer, N. Nowotny); Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic (I. Rudolf, Z. Hubalek); Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman (N. Nowotny)

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Phylogenetic positioning of WNV-Uu-LN-AT-2013, a West Nile virus (WNV) strain newly identified in Austria, within the species West Nile virus. A) Phylogenetic position as determined on the basis of the full-length polyprotein-coding nucleotide sequences. B) Phylogenetic position as determined on the basis of 1,813-nt fragments of NS5, which enabled inclusion of the proposed lineage 6 virus. The evolutionary history was inferred by using the neighbor-joining method of MEGA5 (8) with 1,000-fold bo

Figure. Phylogenetic positioning of WNV-Uu-LN-AT-2013, a West Nile virus (WNV) strain newly identified in Austria, within the species West Nile virus. A) Phylogenetic position as determined on the basis of the full-length polyprotein-coding nucleotide sequences. B) Phylogenetic position as determined on the basis of 1,813-nt fragments of NS5, which enabled inclusion of the proposed lineage 6 virus. The evolutionary history was inferred by using the neighbor-joining method of MEGA5 (8) with 1,000-fold bootstrap analysis, rooted against the respective sequence of Usutu flavivirus. Numbers next to the branches indicate the percentage of replicates in the bootstrap analysis. Black diamond indicates the WNV sequence determined in this study. GenBank accession numbers are shown in parentheses with the virus names. Scale bars indicate nucleotide substitutions per site. Lin., lineage; RABV, Rabensburg virus.

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1Current affiliation: Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria.

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