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Volume 20, Number 8—August 2014
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Role of Migratory Birds in Spreading Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, Turkey

Hakan LeblebiciogluComments to Author , Cafer Eroglu, Kiraz Erciyas-Yavuz, Murat Hokelek, Mustafa Acici, and Hava Yilmaz
Author affiliations: Ondokuz Mayis University Medical School, Samsun, Turkey (H. Leblebicioglu, C. Eroglu, M. Hokelek, H. Yilmaz); Ondokuz Mayis University Ornithology Research Center, Samsun (K. Erciyas-Yavuz); Ondokuz Mayis University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Samsun (M. Acici)

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Figure 1

Phylogenetic tree of nucleotide sequences of CCHFV. Phylogenetic tree based on the 260 bp of the small segment of the CCHFV genome. The multiple sequence alignment was obtained by using MEGA 5.1 (http://www.megasoftware.net), and the phylogenetic tree was constructed by the maximum-likelihood method using 1,000 bootstrap replicates of the sequence data. The tree is drawn to scale with branch length in the same unit as those of the evolutionary distance used to infer the phylogenetic tree. The ph

Figure 1. Phylogenetic tree of nucleotide sequences of CCHFVPhylogenetic tree based on the 260 bp of the small segment of the CCHFV genomeThe multiple sequence alignment was obtained by using MEGA 5.1 (http://www.megasoftware.net), and the phylogenetic tree was constructed by the maximum-likelihood method using 1,000 bootstrap replicates of the sequence dataThe tree is drawn to scale with branch length in the same unit as those of the evolutionary distance used to infer the phylogenetic treeThe phylogenetic tree includes the 7 genotypes described by Mild et al(8)Bootstrap confidence limits (>50) are shown at each nodeThe geographic origin is given for each sequenceThe CCHFV Samsun Turkey described in this report is shown by the diamondScale bar indicates number of nucleotide substitutions per siteCCHFV, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever; S., South; C., Central.

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