Volume 11, Number 11—November 2005
Research
Toscana Virus in Spain
Table 4
L gene | STI1 | ISS Phl.3 | GR40 | GR41 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
nt | |||||
ISS Phl.3 | 0.199 | ||||
GR40 | 0.010 | 0.199 | |||
GR41 | 0.015 | 0.185 | 0.026 | ||
GR79 | 0.010 | 0.205 | 0.020 | 0.015 | |
aa | |||||
ISS Phl.3 | 0.015 | ||||
GR40 | 0.015 | 0. 030 | |||
GR41 | 0.000 | 0.015 | 0.015 | ||
GR79 |
0.000 |
0.015 |
0.015 |
0.000 |
|
N gene |
STI1 |
STI2 |
ISS Phl.3 |
STI6 |
GR40 |
nt | |||||
STI2 | 0.020 | ||||
ISS Phl.3 | 0.116 | 0.123 | |||
STI6 | 0.005 | 0.017 | 0.118 | ||
GR40 | 0.015 | 0.016 | 0.123 | 0.012 | |
GR41 | 0.020 | 0.021 | 0.130 | 0.017 | 0.016 |
aa | |||||
STI2 | 0.000 | ||||
ISS Phl.3 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |||
STI6 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | ||
GR40 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |
GR41 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
*GR40, GR41, and GR79: TOSV obtained from pools of sandflies; STI1, STI2, and STI6: Spanish Toscana virus isolates recovered from patients in previous studies (17); ISS Phl.3: Italian TOSV strain (GenBank accession no. X68414 [L gene] and X53794 [N gene]); nt, nucleotides; aa, amino acids.
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