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Volume 15, Number 2—February 2009
Research

Kupe Virus, a New Virus in the Family Bunyaviridae, Genus Nairovirus, Kenya

Mary CrabtreeComments to Author , Rosemary Sang, and Barry R. Miller
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (M.B. Crabtree, B.R. Miller); Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya (R. Sang)

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Table 5

Pairwise comparison of full-length nucleotide and amino acid sequences of the large segment of Kupe virus with other nairoviruses*

Virus Kupe Dugbe ArD44313 HAZV CCHFV
Kupe 77.4 62.8 61.5
Dugbe ArD44313 89.0 63.4 62.1
HAZV 66.3 66.1 62.3
CCHFV 63.7 63.4 64.0

*Nucleotide identity (%) is shown above the diagonal, and amino acid identity (%) is shown below the diagonal. HAZV, Hazara virus; CCHFV, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus.

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