Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus, Mauritania
Ahmed Salem El Arbi, Ahmed Bezeid El Mamy, Habib Salami, Ekatarina Isselmou, Olivier Kwiatek, Geneviève Libeau, Yaghouba Kane, and Renaud Lancelot
Author affiliations: Ministère du Développement Rural, Nouakchott, Mauritania (A.S. El Arbi); Centre National d’Elevage et de Recherche Vétérinaire, Nouakchott (A.B. El Mamy, E. Isselmou); Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement, Montpellier, France (H. Salami, O. Kwiatek, G. Libeau, R. Lancelot); Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Montpellier (H. Salami, O. Kwiatek, G. Libeau, R. Lancelot); Ecole Inter-Etats des Sciences et Médecine Vétérinaires de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal (Y. Kane)
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Figure. . . Phylogenetic tree based on the nucleoprotein gene of peste des petits ruminants viruses identified in Mauritania (black diamonds) and selected comparison sequences from GenBank. The neighbor-joining method was used for phylogenetic analysis; evolutionary distances were computed by using the Tamura 3-parameter method and a gamma distribution parameter with a value of 4 (9). CAR, Central African Republic; Nig, Nigeria; UAE, United Arab Emirates. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.
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