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Volume 12, Number 1—January 2006
Dispatch

Novel Parvovirus and Related Variant in Human Plasma

Jacqueline F. Fryer*, Amit Kapoor†‡, Philip D. Minor*, Eric Delwart†‡, and Sally A. Baylis*Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom; †Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, USA; ‡University of California, San Francisco, California, USA

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Phylogenetic analysis of a 178-bp sequence of ORF1 of PARV4 and PARV5 (GenBank accession no. DQ112361) with other members of the Parvoviridae subfamily. The alignment includes the members of the Erythrovirus genus (parvovirus B19 [5]) and related viruses such as V9 (6), D91.1 (7), and A6 (8), as well as the closely related viruses infecting the cynomolgus macaque (LTMPV) (9) and rhesus (RMPV) and pig-tailed macaques (PTMPV) (10). Two other viruses tentatively assigned to the group include a parv

Figure 2. hylogenetic analysis of a 178-bp sequence of ORF1 of PARV4 and PARV5 (GenBank accession no. DQ112361) with other members of the Parvoviridae subfamily. The alignment includes the members of the Erythrovirus genus (parvovirus B19 [5]) and related viruses such as V9 (6), D91.1 (7), and A6 (8), as well as the closely related viruses infecting the cynomolgus macaque (LTMPV) (9) and rhesus (RMPV) and pig-tailed macaques (PTMPV) (10). Two other viruses tentatively assigned to the group include a parvovirus isolated from chipmunks (11); BPV3, a novel bovine parvovirus (BPV3) (12); and porcine parvovirus 2 (PPV2) (13). Analysis was performed by using the program ClustalW (14).

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