Volume 15, Number 2—February 2009
Dispatch
European Bat Lyssavirus Transmission among Cats, Europe
Table 2
Percentage nucleotide divergence between EBLV-1a strains isolated from a cat (07240FRA) and bats (08120FRA, 03002FRA, and RV9)*
Gene | Sequence | Strain |
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07240FRA/08120FRA | 07240FRA/03002FRA | 07240FRA/RV9 | ||
Complete genome | nt | 0.1 (12) | 0.4 (36) | 2 (226) |
Nucleoprotein | nt | 0 | 0.2 (2) | 1.5 (19) |
aa | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Phosphoprotein | nt | 0.1 (1) | 0.4 (4) | 2.3 (23) |
aa | 0.3 (1), I149T | 0.7 (2), I149T, G175D | 1.7 (7), Q147R, I149T, T156A, F169S, P174L, G175D, G266S | |
Matrix | nt | 0 | 0.3 (2) | 1.5 (7) |
aa | 0 | 0 | 1 (2), N2K, I155M | |
Glycoprotein | nt | 0 | 0.2 (3) | 2.1 (32) |
aa | 0 | 0.2 (1), S489P | 0.8 (4), L244Q, S278N, S489P, A521T | |
Polymerase | nt | 0.03 (2) | 0.3 (16) | 1.9 (109) |
aa | 0 | 0.2 (4), A97T, G1160D, T1754I, R1894S | 0.3 (5), R315K, I391V, K980R, T1754I, R1894S |
*Strains 07240FRA and 08120FRA were isolated from cat no. 2 and from a bat (Eptesicus serotinus) found dead in the same area (Fontenay-le-Comte, France), respectively. Strain 03002FRA was isolated from another bat (E. serotinus) collected ≈100 km from Fontenay-le-Comte in 2003 (10). Isolate RV9 was collected from a bat (E. serotinus) in 1968 in Germany (15). Numbers of substitutions are indicated in parentheses. Type of amino acid substitutions are indicated in boldface. GenBank accession numbers for full-length genomic sequences corresponding to strains 07240FRA, 08120FRA, 03002FRA, and RV9 are EU626552, EU626551, EU293109, and EF157976, respectively. EBLV, European bat lyssavirus; nt, nucleotide; aa, amino acid.
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