Volume 11, Number 12—December 2005
Dispatch
Passatempo Virus, a Vaccinia Virus Strain, Brazil
Juliana A. Leite*, Betânia P. Drumond*, Giliane S. Trindade*, Zélia I.P. Lobato*, Flávio G. da Fonseca†, João R. dos Santos*, Marieta C. Madureira‡, Maria I.M.C. Guedes*, Jaqueline M.S. Ferreira*, Cláudio A. Bonjardim, Paulo C.P. Ferreira*, and Erna G. Kroon*
Table
Passatempo virus (PSTV), Araçatuba virus (ARAV), Cantagalo virus (CTGV), Vaccinia virus IOC (VACV-IOC), vaccinia virus Lister (VACV-LST), vaccinia virus Western Reserve (VACV-WR), and cowpox virus Brighton Red (CPXV-BR) ha, tk, and vgf genes and amino acid sequences*†
| PSTV | Identity among homologous sequences (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARAV | CTGV | VACV-IOC | VACV-LST | VACV-WR | CPXV-BR | |
| Genes | ||||||
| ha | 99.9 | 99.8 | 98.7 | 97.4 | 96.3 | 84.0 |
| tk | 100.0 | –* | –* | 99.8 | 100.0 | 98.0 |
| vgf | 98.6 | –* | –* | 98.0 | 98.6 | 95.7 |
| Amino acids | ||||||
| HA | 99.7 | 99.3 | 96.6 | 95.0 | 94.0 | 79.9 |
| TK | 100.0 | –* | –* | 100.0 | 100.0 | 98.2 |
| VGF | 97.4 | –* | –* | 100.0 | 97.4 | 92.2 |
*CTGV and VACV-IOC tk and vgf nucleotide and amino acid sequences are not available in the GenBank database.
†HA, hemagglutinin; TK, thymidine kinase; VGF, vaccinia growth factor.
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