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Volume 19, Number 4—April 2013
Dispatch

Feline Origin of Rotavirus Strain, Tunisia, 2008

Mouna Ben Hadj Fredj, Elisabeth Heylen, Mark Zeller, Imene Fodha, Meriam Benhamida-Rebai, Marc Van Ranst, Jelle Matthijnssens, and Abdelhalim TrabelsiComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Sahloul University Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia (M. Ben Hadj Fredj, I. Fodha, M. Benhamida-Rebai, A. Trabelsi); University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia (M. Ben Hadj Fredj, I. Fodha, M. Benhamida-Rebai, A. Trabelsi); University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (E. Heylen, M. Zeller, M. Van Ranst, J. Matthijnssens)

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Figure 1

Phylogenetic trees of the full-length nucleotide sequences of the group A rotavirus (RVA) virus capsid protein (VP) 7, VP4, VP6, VP1, VP2, and VP3 genes. Phylogenetic trees were constructed by using the neighbor-joining method with the Kimura 2-parameter method. Bootstrap values (1,000 replicates) >70% are shown. Filled circles indicate strain RVA/human-wt/TUN/17237/2008/G6P[9] from Tunisia; filled triangles indicate feline RVA strains; and open triangles indicate feline/canine-like human RVA

Figure 1. . . Phylogenetic trees of the full-length nucleotide sequences of the group A rotavirus (RVA) virus capsid protein (VP) 7, VP4, VP6, VP1, VP2, and VP3 genes. Phylogenetic trees were constructed by using the neighbor-joining method with the Kimura 2-parameter method. Bootstrap values (1,000 replicates) >70% are shown. Filled circles indicate strain RVA/human-wt/TUN/17237/2008/G6P[9] from Tunisia; filled triangles indicate feline RVA strains; and open triangles indicate feline/canine-like human RVA strains. GenBank accession numbers of the sequences of reference strains are shown in Technical Appendix Table 2. Scale bars indicate nucleotide substitutions per site.

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