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Volume 14, Number 5—May 2008
Dispatch

Acute Encephalitis Caused by Intrafamilial Transmission of Enterovirus 71 in Adult

Tsuyoshi Hamaguchi*†Comments to Author , Hironori Fujisawa‡, Kenji Sakai†, Soichi Okino†, Naoko Kurosaki§, Yorihiro Nishimura¶, Hiroyuki Shimizu¶, and Masahito Yamada*
Author affiliations: *Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa, Japan; †Ishikawa Prefecture Central Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan; ‡Fujii Neurosurgical Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan; §Ishikawa Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science, Kanazawa, Japan; ¶National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan;

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Figure 2

Phylogenetic analysis of EV71 based on the entire VP1 sequences. The tree was prepared by the neighbor-joining method by using the EV71 strains in the world as described previously (6) and newly identified subgenogroup C4 strains (7,8) were also included in the analysis.

Figure 2. Phylogenetic analysis of EV71 based on the entire VP1 sequences. The tree was prepared by the neighbor-joining method by using the EV71 strains in the world as described previously (6) and newly identified subgenogroup C4 strains (7,8) were also included in the analysis.

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