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Volume 17, Number 4—April 2011
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Animal Movement and Establishment of Vaccinia Virus Cantagalo Strain in Amazon Biome, Brazil

Jociane Cristina Quixabeira-Santos, Maria Luiza G. Medaglia, Caroline A. Pescador, and Clarissa R. DamasoComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Author affiliations: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (J. Quixabeira-Santos, M.L.G. Medaglia, C.R. Damaso); Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Brazil (J. Quixabeira-Santos, C.A. Pescador); Instituto de Defesa Agropecuária do Estado de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá (J. Quixabeira-Santos)

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Table 2

Nucleotide identity scores obtained for the concatenated alignment of HA, C7L, and K2L genes of Mato Grosso and Rondônia isolates and distinct vaccinia virus strains, Brazil, 2008–2010*

Strain VACV-Cop VACV-Lister VACV-WR ARAV CTGV- MU-07 CTGV CTGV-VSD-01 CTGV-URU-04 CTGV-URU-06 CTGV-JP-11 CTGV-JP-13 CTGV-ESP-01
VACV-Cop ID 0.990 0.990 0.971 0.971 0.971 0.971 0.971 0.971 0.971 0.971 0.971
VACV-Lister 0.990 ID 0.991 0.972 0.972 0.972 0.972 0.972 0.972 0.972 0.972 0.972
VACV-WR 0.990 0.991 ID 0.976 0.976 0.976 0.976 0.976 0.976 0.976 0.976 0.976
ARAV 0.971 0.972 0.976 ID 0.999 0.999 0.999 0.999 0.999 0.999 0.999 0.999
CTGV-MU-07 0.971 0.972 0.976 0.999 ID 0.999 0.999 0.999 0.999 0.999 0.999 0.999
CTGV 0.971 0.972 0.976 0.999 0.999 ID 0.999 0.999 0.999 0.999 0.999 0.999
CTGV-VSD-01 0.971 0.972 0.976 0.999 0.999 0.999 ID 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000
CTGV-URU-04 0.971 0.972 0.976 0.999 0.999 0.999 1.000 ID 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000
CTGV-URU-06 0.971 0.972 0.976 0.999 0.999 0.999 1.000 1.000 ID 1.000 1.000 1.000
CTGV-JP-11 0.971 0.972 0.976 0.999 0.999 0.999 1.000 1.000 1.000 ID 1.000 1.000
CTGV-JP-13 0.971 0.972 0.976 0.999 0.999 0.999 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 ID 1.000
CTGV-ESP-01 0.971 0.972 0.976 0.999 0.999 0.999 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 ID

*GenBank accession nos. for vaccinia virus genomes are as follows: VACV-Cop (Copenhagen strain), M35027; VACV-Lister, AY678276; VACV-WR (Western Reserve strain), NC_006998. Individual GenBank accession nos. for HA, C7L and K2L genes of CTGV and CTGV-related viruses are as follows, respectively: ARAV (Araçatuba virus) (3): AY523994, EF051277, EF175987); CTGV isolate MU- 07 (7): FJ545689, FJ545688, FJ545687; CTGV (reference sample) (1): AF229247, EF488959, EU528619; CTGV isolates investigated in this work VSD-01(municipality of Vale de São Domingos, MT, 2008): HQ336388, HQ336394, HQ336400; URU-04 (municipality of Urupá, RO, 2009): HQ336387, HQ336393, HQ336399; URU-06 (municipality of Urupá, RO, 2009): HQ336389, HQ336395, HQ336401; JP-11 (municipality of Ji-Paraná, RO, 2010): HQ336385, HQ336391, HQ336397; JP-13 (municipality of Ji-Paraná, RO, 2010): HQ336384, HQ336390, HQ336396; ESP-01 (municipality of Espigão D’Oeste, RO, 2010): HQ336386, HQ336392, HQ336398. HA, hemagglutinin; VACV, vaccinia virus; CTGV, vaccinia virus CantaIago strain; MT, Mato Grosso State; RO, Rondônia State; ID, identical viruses.

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