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Volume 10, Number 5—May 2004
Research

Endemic Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis in Northern Peru

Patricia V. Aguilar*, Ivorlyne P. Greene*, Lark L. Coffey*, Gladys Medina*1, Abelardo C. Moncayo*2, Michael Anishchenko*, George V. Ludwig†, Michael J. Turell‡, Monica L. O’Guinn‡, John Lee‡, Robert B. Tesh*, Douglas M. Watts†, Kevin L. Russell†, Christine Hice*, Stephen Yanoviak*, Amy C. Morrison§, Terry A. Klein‡, David J. Dohm‡, Hilda Guzman*, Amelia P.A. Travassos da Rosa*, Carolina Guevara†, Tadeusz J. Kochel†, James Olson†, Cesar Cabezas¶, and Nikos Vasilakis*Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA; †Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima, Peru; ‡U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA; §University of California, Davis, California, USA; ¶Instituto Nacional de Salud, Lima, Peru

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Figure 3

Phylogenetic tree of the Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV) complex derived from partial PE2 gene sequences of Peruvian VEEV isolates and homologous sequences published previously, using the neighbor joining program implemented in PAUP 4.0 (22). The tree was rooted using an outgroup comprised of four major lineages of Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus (26). Virus strains are labeled by VEE complex subtype, abbreviated country (FL=Florida, USA) and year of isolation, followed by strain d

Figure 3. Phylogenetic tree of the Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV) complex derived from partial PE2 gene sequences of Peruvian VEEV isolates and homologous sequences published previously, using the neighbor joining program implemented in PAUP 4.0 (22). The tree was rooted using an outgroup comprised of four major lineages of Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus (26). Virus strains are labeled by VEE complex subtype, abbreviated country (FL=Florida, USA) and year of isolation, followed by strain designation. Numbers indicate bootstrap values for clades to the right.

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1Current affiliation is Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela.

2Current affiliation is Department of Biological Sciences, Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio.

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