Volume 9, Number 7—July 2003
Research
Emergence and Global Spread of a Dengue Serotype 3, Subtype III Virus
William B. Messer*, Duane J. Gubler†, Eva Harris‡, Kamalanayani Sivananthan§, and Aravinda M. de Silva*
Table 5
Summary of within- and between-group nucleotide mean similarity for the dengue virus 3, subtype III virus isolates shown in Figure 2a
| Subgroup | Within-group similarity | Between group similarity |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subgroup A | East Africa | Subgroup B | ||
| Subgroup A |
99.4% |
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| East Africa |
99.5% |
98.2% |
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| Subgroup B |
98.8% |
97.9% |
98.7% |
|
| Latin America | 99.5% | 98.0% | 99.0% | 98.5% |
aMean similarities were calculated with the Tamura-Nei distance algorithm.
