Volume 12, Number 11—November 2006
Dispatch
Reemergence of Dengue Virus Type 4, French Antilles and French Guiana, 2004–2005
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Figure. Phylogenetic tree of American dengue virus type 4 (DENV-4) strains generated by using the neighbor-joining algorithm with Kimura 2 parameter distance. Numbers above branches refer to bootstrap values generated by using distance, and numbers under nodes refer to bootstrap values generated by using parsimony. Names of isolates refer to country and are listed in the Table. Accession no. M14931 refers to the complete genome of DENV-4. A and B refer to the 1981 introduction group and to the modern Caribbean clade, respectively, and B1–B4 correspond to 4 different lineages within group B, as previously reported by Foster et al. (8).
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