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Volume 17, Number 5—May 2011
Letter

Kyasanur Forest Disease Virus Alkhurma Subtype in Ticks, Najran Province, Saudi Arabia

Mustafa Mahdi, Bobbie Rae Erickson, J. Andy Comer, Stuart T. Nichol, Pierre E. RollinComments to Author , Mohammed A. AlMazroa, and Ziad A. Memish
Author affiliations: Author affiliations: Najran Preventive Medicine Department, Najran, Saudi Arabia (M. Mahdi); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (B.R. Erickson, J.A. Comer, S.T. Nichol, P.E. Rollin); Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (M.A. AlMazroa, Z.A. Memish)

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Phylogenetic analysis of Alkhurma viruses isolated from Ornithodoros savignyi and Hyalomma dromedarii ticks in Najran Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A 390-bp region of the core protein C and preM genes was amplified and sequenced for each of the isolates (HQ443410–6) by using primers ALK244S (5′-GTGTTGATGCGCATGATGGG-3′) and ALK665R (5′-TGCAGAAACAGTCCACATCA-3′). A maximum-likelihood analysis was conducted with available sequences in GenBank for ALK (NC_004355; 3) by using Kyasanur Forest dise

Figure. Phylogenetic analysis of Alkhurma viruses isolated from Ornithodoros savignyi and Hyalomma dromedarii ticks in Najran Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A 390-bp region of the core protein C and preM genes was amplified and sequenced for each of the isolates (HQ443410–6) by using primers ALK244S (5′-GTGTTGATGCGCATGATGGG-3′) and ALK665R (5′-TGCAGAAACAGTCCACATCA-3′). A maximum-likelihood analysis was conducted with available sequences in GenBank for ALK (NC_004355; 3) by using Kyasanur Forest disease (AY323490) as the outgroup and the default settings in GARLI version 0.96b8 (www.phylo.org/pdf_docs/zwicklDissertation.pdf). Scale bar indicates substitutions per site.

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