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Volume 20, Number 8—August 2014
Dispatch

Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus in Ticks Collected from Humans, South Korea, 2013

Seok-Min Yun1, Wook-Gyo Lee1, Jungsang Ryou, Sung-Chan Yang, Sun-Whan Park, Jong Yeol Roh, Ye-Ji Lee, Chan Park, and Myung Guk HanComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cheongwon-gun, South Korea

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Phylogenetic analysis of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome viruses based on the partial medium segment sequences (560 bp). The tree was constructed by using the neighbor-joining method based on the p-distance model in MEGA5 (12) (5,000 bootstrap replicates). Uukuniemi virus was used as the outgroup. Scale bar indicates the nucleotide substitutions per position. Among the 17 South Korean strains identified in this study, the Korean strains detected from Haemaphysalis longicornis, Amblyo

Figure. Phylogenetic analysis of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome viruses based on the partial medium segment sequences (560 bp)The tree was constructed by using the neighbor-joining method based on the p-distance model in MEGA5 (12) (5,000 bootstrap replicates)Uukuniemi virus was used as the outgroupScale bar indicates the nucleotide substitutions per positionAmong the 17 South Korean strains identified in this study, the Korean strains detected from Haemaphysalis longicornis, Amblyomma testudinarium, and Ixodes nipponensis ticks are marked with open circles, squares, and triangles, respectivelyNumbers at nodes indicate bootstrap values.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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