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Volume 12, Number 2—February 2006
Dispatch

Human Metapneumovirus, Peru

Gregory C. Gray*Comments to Author , Ana W. Capuano*, Sharon F. Setterquist*, Jose L. Sanchez†, James S. Neville‡, James Olson§, Mark G A Lebeck*, Troy McCarthy*, Yacine Abed¶, and Guy Boivin¶
Author affiliations: *University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City, Iowa, USA; †US Military HIV Research Program, Rockville, Maryland, USA; ‡Air Force Institute for Operational Health, Brooks City-Base, Texas, USA; §US Navy Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima, Peru; ¶Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, Québec City, Québec, Canada

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G-gene phylogenetic relationships of 6 human metapneumovirus (HMPV) isolates detected in South America during 2002 and 2003 compared to prototypic HMPV isolates from the Netherlands: NL/1/00, NL/17/00, NL/1/99, NL/1/94 (accession nos. AF371337, AY296021, AY525843, and AY296040, respectively) and from Canada: Can97-83, HMPV-13-00, CAN98-75, and HMPV-33-01 (accession nos. AY485253, AY485232, AY485245, and AY485242, respectively). Classification of genotypes was made according to previous reports (

Figure. G-gene phylogenetic relationships of 6 human metapneumovirus (HMPV) isolates detected in South America during 2002 and 2003 compared to prototypic HMPV isolates from the Netherlands: NL/1/00, NL/17/00, NL/1/99, NL/1/94 (accession nos. AF371337, AY296021, AY525843, and AY296040, respectively) and from Canada: Can97-83, HMPV-13-00, CAN98-75, and HMPV-33-01 (accession nos. AY485253, AY485232, AY485245, and AY485242, respectively). Classification of genotypes was made according to previous reports (13,14).

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