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Volume 20, Number 9—September 2014
Letter

Rio Mamore Virus and Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, Brazil

Renata Carvalho de Oliveira, Marcelo Cordeiro-Santos, Alexandro Guterres, Jorlan Fernandes, Alexsandro X. de Melo, Guilherme A.P. João, Maria A.M. Novais, Elizabeth Salbé Travassos da Rosa, Pedro Fernando da Costa Vasconcelos, Stefan Vilges de Oliveira, Bernardino Cláudio de Albuquerque, and Elba Regina Sampaio de Lemos
Author affiliations: Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (R.C. Oliveira, A. Guterres, J. Fernandes, E.R.S. Lemos); Health Surveillance Foundation, Manaus, Brazil (M. Cordeiro-Santos, A.X. de Melo, M.A.M. Novais, B.C. Albuquerque); Amazon State University, Manaus (M. Cordeiro-Santos); Tropical Medicine Foundation, Manaus (G.A.P. João); Evandro Chagas Institute, Belém, Brazil (E.S. Travassos da Rosa, P.F.C. Vasconcelos); Ministry of Health, Brasília, Brazil (S. Vilges de Oliveira); Amazon Federal University, Manaus (B.C. Albuquerque); Pará State University, Belém (P.F.C. Vasconcelos)

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Phylogenetic relationships among hantaviruses were estimated by using the Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo method implemented in MrBayes version 3.1.2 (8). The relationships were based on the initial 905-nt fragment of the small segment. The numerical value ≥0.7 at the node indicates the posterior probability replicates that supported the interior branch. The branch labels include GenBank accession number and virus species or strain. Boldface indicates the reference sequence; scale bar indicate

Figure. Phylogenetic relationships among hantaviruses were estimated by using the Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo method implemented in MrBayes version 3.1.2 (8). The relationships were based on the initial 905-nt fragment of the small segment. The numerical value ≥0.7 at the node indicates the posterior probability replicates that supported the interior branch. The branch labels include GenBank accession number and virus species or strain. Boldface indicates the reference sequence; scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site. RIOMV, Rio Mamore virus.

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