Reassortant Group A Rotavirus from Straw-colored Fruit Bat (Eidolon helvum)
Mathew D. Esona, Slavica Mijatovic-Rustempasic, Christina Conrardy, Suxiang Tong, Ivan V. Kuzmin, Bernard Agwanda, Robert F. Breiman, Krisztian Banyai, Michael Niezgoda, Charles E. Rupprecht, Jon R. Gentsch, and Michael D. Bowen
Author affiliations: Author affilations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (M.D. Esona, S. Mijatovic-Rustempasic, C. Conrardy, S. Tong , I.V. Kuzmin, M. Niezgoda, C.E. Rupprecht, J.R. Gentsch, M.D. Bowen); National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya (B. Agwanda); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention–Kenya, Nairobi (R.F. Breiman); Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary (K. Banyai)
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Figure 2. Alignment of viral protein 1 (VP1) amino acid sequence of bat rotavirus strain KE4852/07 from Kenya with cognate VP1 sequence of reference rotavirus A strain S2. The consensus line shows conserved amino acid residues and similar residues (indicated by +). The motif F region (27) is shaded.
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