Volume 11, Number 9—September 2005
Dispatch
West Nile Virus Isolation in Human and Mosquitoes, Mexico
Darwin Elizondo-Quiroga*, C. Todd Davis†, Ildefonso Fernandez-Salas*, Roman Escobar-Lopez‡, Dolores Velasco Olmos‡, Lourdes Cecilia Soto Gastalum‡, Magaly Aviles Acosta‡, Armando Elizondo-Quiroga*, Jose I. Gonzalez-Rojas*, Juan F. Contreras Cordero*, Hilda Guzman†, Amelia Travassos da Rosa†, Bradley J. Blitvich§, Alan D.T. Barrett†, Barry J. Beaty§, and Robert B. Tesh†
Table 2
Nucleotide and deduced amino acid differences in the prM-E genes of Mexican and Texas isolates compared to West Nile virus strain WN-NY99 (382-99)
| Strain | Nucleotide (amino acid) substitutions in prM and E genes (nt 466–2469)* |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 483 | 549 | 660 | 858 | 887 | 1074 | 1137 | 1179 | 1320 | 1356 | 1432 | 1442 | 1626 | 1656 | 1974 | 2328 | 2388 | 2392 | 2466 | |
| WN-NY99 (AF196835)† | C | U | C | C | U (Ile) | G | C | A | A | C | U (Ser) | U (Val) | C | U | C | C | C | G (Ala) | C |
| TM171-03 (AY371271) | U | ‡ | U | C (Thr) | U | C (Pro) | U | U | U | U | |||||||||
| MexNL-03 (AY426741) | C | U | G | U | C (Ala) | U | |||||||||||||
| NL-54 (Mosquito, MX) | U | G | C (Ala) | U | |||||||||||||||
| Human (Sonora, MX) | U | A | G | C (Ala) | C | U | U | ||||||||||||
| Harris Co., TX-1 (AY185906) | U | C (Ala) | A (Thr) | U | |||||||||||||||
*Nucleotide numbers correspond to WN-NY99; amino acid substitutions are in brackets.
†GenBank accession number.
‡Blank entries indicate no nucleotide or amino acid substitutions.
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