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Volume 8, Number 12—December 2002
Dispatch

New Variant of Varicella-Zoster Virus

Graham A. Tipples*Comments to Author , Gwen M. Stephens†, Chris Sherlock†, Margrit Bowler†, Benny Hoy‡, Darrel Cook‡, and Charles Grose§
Author affiliations: *National Microbiology Laboratory, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; †St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; ‡British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; §University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA;

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Table

Amino acid sequences of VZV strains Dumas, MSP and BC in the 3B3 monoclonal antibody epitopea

Codon
150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161
Dumas D Q R Q Y G D V F K G D
VZV-MSP N Q R Q Y G D V F K G D
VZV-BC N Q R Q Y G D V F K G D

aVZV-BC, varicella-zoster virus found in British Columbia; VZV-MSP, varicella-zoster virus glycoprotein E mutant virus.

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