Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Genetic Characterization of Hantaviruses Transmitted by the Korean Field Mouse (Apodemus peninsulae), Far East Russia

Kumari Lokugamage*, Hiroaki Kariwa*

, Daisuke Hayasaka*, Bai Zhong Cui*, Takuya Iwasaki†, Nandadeva Lokugamage*, Leonid I. Ivanov‡, Vladimir I. Volkov‡, Vladimir A. Demenev§, Raisa Slonova¶, Galina Kompanets¶, Tatyana Kushnaryova¶, Takeshi Kurata†, Kenji Maeda*, Koichi Araki*, Tetsuya Mizutani*, Kumiko Yoshimatsu#, Jiro Arikawa#, and Ikuo Takashima*

Author affiliations: *Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; †National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan; ‡Plague Control Station, Khabarovsk, Russia; §Far Eastern Medical Association, Khabarovsk, Russia; ¶Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia; #Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan;

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Phylogenetic trees of hantavirus (A) partial M (nt 2736–2968) and (B) partial M (nt 2001–2301) segments. Trees were constructed by using ClustalX (ver. 1.81) program. Numbers above the branches are distances and those in parentheses are bootstrap support values for 1000 replicates.

Figure 2. Phylogenetic trees of hantavirus (A) partial M (nt 2736–2968) and (B) partial M (nt 2001–2301) segments. Trees were constructed by using ClustalX (ver. 1.81) program. Numbers above the branches are distances and those in parentheses are bootstrap support values for 1000 replicates.

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