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Volume 21, Number 5—May 2015
Research

Itaya virus, a Novel Orthobunyavirus Associated with Human Febrile Illness, Peru

Robert D. Hontz, Carolina Guevara, Eric S. Halsey, Jesus Silvas, Felix W. Santiago, Steven G. Widen, Thomas G. Wood, Wilma Casanova, Scott C. Weaver, Douglas Watts, Tadeusz J. Kochel, Hideki Ebihara, and Patricia V. AguilarComments to Author 
Author affiliations: United States Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6, Lima, Peru (R.D. Hontz, C. Guevara, E.S. Halsey, D.M. Watts, T.J. Kochel); University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston (J. Silvas, F.W. Santiago, S.G. Widen, T.G. Wood, N. Vasilakis, P.V. Aguilar); Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, Galveston, Texas, USA (J. Silvas, F.W. Santiago, N. Vasilakis, P.V. Aguilar); Direccion Regional de Salud Loreto, Iquitos, Peru (W. Casanova); Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Galveston (N. Vasilakis, P.V. Aguilar); National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, Montana, USA (H. Ebihara)

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Figure 4

Neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree of group C orthobunyaviruses constructed by using MEGA5 (23) on the basis of the large gene segments of published virus sequences and Itaya virus strains isolated in Peru in 1999 and 2006 (boldface). The Itaya strain segments show a more distant relationship to Caraparu virus than for the small and large segments, indicating that Itaya virus is a novel reassortant strain. Virus strains are labeled by code designation. Numbers indicate bootstrap values for the c

Figure 4. Neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree of group C orthobunyaviruses constructed by using MEGA5 (23) on the basis of the large gene segments of published virus sequences and Itaya virus strains isolated in Peru in 1999 and 2006 (boldface). The Itaya strain segments show a more distant relationship to Caraparu virus than for the small and large segments, indicating that Itaya virus is a novel reassortant strain. Virus strains are labeled by code designation. Numbers indicate bootstrap values for the clades to the right. Bootstrap values were obtained based on 1,000 replicates. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.

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