Volume 16, Number 3—March 2010
Dispatch
Putative New Lineage of West Nile Virus, Spain
Ana Vázquez
, María Paz Sánchez-Seco, Santiago Ruiz, Francisca Molero, Lourdes Hernández, Juana Moreno, Antonio Magallanes, Concepción Gómez Tejedor, and Antonio Tenorio
, María Paz Sánchez-Seco, Santiago Ruiz, Francisca Molero, Lourdes Hernández, Juana Moreno, Antonio Magallanes, Concepción Gómez Tejedor, and Antonio Tenorio
Table 2
Sequence differences between HU2925/06 and other strains representing previously described West Nile virus lineages or related flaviviruses*
| Lineages | Nucleotide difference, % |
Amino acid difference, % |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1a | 1b | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | HU2925/06 | JEV | USUV | ||
| 1a | – | 1.1 | 5 | 6.7 | 7.8 | 6 | 8.3 | 17.8 | 16.5 | |
| 1b | 11.1 | – | 4.8 | 6.8 | 7.6 | 6 | 8.1 | 17.9 | 16.7 | |
| 2 | 20 | 21.4 | – | 5.5 | 6.1 | 6.7 | 7.7 | 18.5 | 17.6 | |
| 3 | 21.6 | 22 | 20.8 | – | 6.8 | 7.8 | 8.6 | 18.1 | 18.1 | |
| 4 | 21.8 | 22 | 22 | 22.6 | – | 9.5 | 5 | 19.6 | 19.1 | |
| 5 | 19.6 | 20.2 | 21.3 | 22.3 | 23.4 | – | 10.9 | 18.4 | 17.1 | |
| HU2925/06 | 22.5 | 22.4 | 22.2 | 22 | 18.3 | 23.4 | – | 19.1 | 19.2 | |
| JEV | 27.3 | 28.2 | 27.1 | 26.9 | 29 | 27.7 | 28 | – | 14.3 | |
| USUV | 26.1 | 26.8 | 27.8 | 29.1 | 28.1 | 27.6 | 28.2 | 25 | – | |
*Values of nucleotide and amino acid differences were calculated by p distance and multiplied by 100. JEV, Japanese encephalitis virus; USUV, Usutu virus.
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