Volume 14, Number 5—May 2008
Dispatch
Sandfly Fever Sicilian Virus, Algeria
Arezki Izri*, Sarah Temmam†, Grégory Moureau†, Boussad Hamrioui‡, Xavier de Lamballerie†, and Rémi N. Charrel†
Table
Pairwise genetic distances between Sandfly fever Sicilian virus sequence and homologous sequences of selected phleboviruses* View Actual Table
| No. | Virus | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nucleotide sequences | ||||||||||
| 1 | Sandfly fever Sicilian virus, Algeria | – | 7.5 | 4.0 | 40.4 | 38.8 | 42.3 | 40.1 | 38.5 | 48.2 |
| 2 | Sandfly fever Sicilian virus, Cyprus | 4.5 | – | 6.5 | 42.7 | 41.3 | 39.3 | 43.3 | 38.5 | 53.0 |
| 3 | Sandfly fever Sicilian virus, Italy | 9.3 | 1.5 | – | 39.1 | 37.9 | 42.3 | 39.6 | 35.8 | 46.5 |
| 4 | Arbia virus | 54.7 | 52.2 | 50.7 | – | 38.2 | 42.2 | 40.9 | 40.4 | 53.8 |
| 5 | Toscana virus, Italy | 48.0 | 47.8 | 44.0 | 42.7 | – | 17.4 | 30.4 | 38.1 | 48.2 |
| 6 | Toscana virus, France | 46.3 | 47.8 | 47.8 | 44.8 | 1.5 | – | 34.8 | 42.0 | 52.0 |
| 7 | Sandfly fever Naples virus, Sabin | 52.0 | 50.7 | 48.0 | 52.0 | 25.3 | 25.4 | – | 41.2 | 51.3 |
| 8 | Rift Valley fever virus | 41.3 | 37.3 | 34.7 | 45.3 | 37.3 | 41.8 | 46.7 | – | 47.1 |
| 9 | Uukuniemi virus | 69.3 | 67.2 | 61.3 | 64.0 | 60.0 | 65.7 | 62.7 | 58.7 | – |
| Amino acid sequences | ||||||||||
*Sandfly fever Sicilian virus isolated from Phlebotomus ariasi sandflies in Algeria. Selected phleboviruses are those for which the corresponding sequence was available in the GenBank database.
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