Widespread Rotavirus H in Commercially Raised Pigs, United States
Douglas Marthaler
, Kurt Rossow, Marie Culhane, Sagar Goyal, Jim Collins, Jelle Matthijnssens, Martha Nelson, and Max Ciarlet
Author affiliations: University of Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA (D. Marthaler, K. Rossow, M. Culhane, S. Goyal, J. Collins); University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (J. Matthijnssens); Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (M. Nelson); Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (Max Ciarlet)
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Figure 2. A) Nucleotide neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree of rotavirus (RV) A–D and F–H viral protein (VP) 6 sequencesBlue strains are from the United States; green strains are from Brazil; and the red strain is from JapanPurple strains are from humansScale bar indicates percentage of dissimilarity between sequencesB) Time-scaled phylogeny of swine RVH VP6 sequences using a Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo approachBlue shaded region indicates the time from the most recent common ancestor range (tMRCA) of the US strain; red shaded region indicates the US and Japan RVH tMCRA range; green shaded region indicates the tMRCA range for all swine RVH VP6 sequences.
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