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Volume 17, Number 5—May 2011
Dispatch

Phylogenetic Analysis of West Nile Virus Isolates, Italy, 2008–2009

Giada Rossini1, Fabrizio Carletti1, Licia Bordi, Francesca Cavrini, Paolo Gaibani, Maria P. Landini, Anna Pierro, Maria R. Capobianchi, Antonino Di Caro, and Vittorio SambriComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Author affiliations: University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy (G. Rossini, F. Cavrini, P. Gaibani, M.P. Landini, A. Pierro, V. Sambri); National Institute for Infectious Diseases “L. Spallanzani,” Rome, Italy (F. Carletti, L. Bordi, M.R. Capobianchi, A. Di Caro)

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Figure 2

Genomic region encompassing nonstructural (NS) 3, NS4a, NS4b, and NS5 genes. Phylogenetic tree and distance matrices were constructed by using nucleotide alignment, the Kimura 2-parameter algorithm, and the neighbor-joining method implemented in MEGA version 4.1 (www.megasoftware.net/mega4/mega41.html). The tree was rooted by using Usutu virus as the outgroup virus. The robustness of branching patterns was tested by 1,000 bootstrap pseudoreplications. The percentage of successful bootstrap repli

Figure 2. Genomic region encompassing nonstructural (NS) 3, NS4a, NS4b, and NS5 genes. Phylogenetic tree and distance matrices were constructed by using nucleotide alignment, the Kimura 2-parameter algorithm, and the neighbor-joining method implemented in MEGA version 4.1 (www.megasoftware.net/mega4/mega41.html). The tree was rooted by using Usutu virus as the outgroup virus. The robustness of branching patterns was tested by 1,000 bootstrap pseudoreplications. The percentage of successful bootstrap replicates is indicated at nodes, showing only values >80. The scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site. Strains sequenced in this study are TOS-09, FAN-09, BAL-09, CHI-09, NAL-09 and 191 MAN-08. NS3/NS5 region nucleotide sequence GenBank accession nos.: NAL-09, HM641230; TOS-09, HM641225; BAL-09, HM641226; CHI-09, HM641227; MAN-09, HM641229; FAN-09, HM641228. Boldface indicates the 6 newly sequenced strains. *Strains from Italy carrying the T249P mutation.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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