Volume 20, Number 8—August 2014
Letter
Phylogenetic Analysis of West Nile Virus Genome, Iran
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Figure. Phylogenetic tree based on a 358-nt sequence (nt 259–616) of 27 strains of West Nile virus (WNV) generated by using the neighbor-joining algorithm in MEGA5 (8)Japanese encephalitis virus was used as an outgroupLocation of virus isolation and GenBank accession numbers (in parentheses) are providedThe WNV sequence from Iran (KJ486150) was grouped into lineage 2 and had 99% identity with the 358-bp region of WNV strain ArB3573/82 from the Central African RepublicScale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.
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