Volume 13, Number 7—July 2007
Synopsis
Thottapalayam Virus, a Prototype Shrewborne Hantavirus
Jin-Won Song*, Luck Ju Baek*, Connie S. Schmaljohn†, and Richard Yanagihara‡
Table 2
Comparison of full-length small-segment nucleotide and amino acid sequences of hantaviruses with Thottapalayam virus*
| Hantavirus (strain) | Thottapalayam virus |
|
|---|---|---|
| 1,530 nt | 436 aa | |
| Hantaan (76–118) | 47.9 | 47.1 |
| Seoul (HR80–39) | 40.8 | 45.7 |
| Puumala (Sotkamo) | 43.7 | 44.6 |
| Prospect Hill (PH-1) | 47.5 | 44.3 |
| Sin Nombre (NMH10) | 41.2 | 47.9 |
| Andes (Chile 9717869) | 44.2 | 47.2 |
*Values are percentage similarities. Distances were calculated using PAUP version 3.1.1 (Sinauer Associates Inc., Sunderland, MA, USA).
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