Volume 23, Number 12—December 2017
Synopsis
Fatal Outbreak in Tonkean Macaques Caused by Possibly Novel Orthopoxvirus, Italy, January 20151
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Figure 6. Phylogenetic analysis of OPV Abatino obtained from skin lesion of Tonkean macaque during outbreak at animal sanctuary, Italy, January 2015. Nine conserved genes (GenBank accession nos. KY100107–KY100115) obtained with next-generation sequencing were concatenated and aligned with the homologous concatenated sequences from representative OPV strains (GenBank accession no.): TATV-Dahomey-1968 (DQ437594.1), VARV-Bangladesh-1975 (L22579.1), CMLV-M96 (AF438165.1), CPXV-HumAac09–1 (KC813508.1), CPXV-Germany2002-MKY (HQ420898.1), CPXV-Germany1998–2 (HQ420897.1), CPXV-MarLei07–1 (KC813499.1), MPXV-Congo2003–358 (DQ011154.1), CPXV-Finland2000 (HQ420893.1), VACV-Lister (KX061501.1), ECTV-Moscow (AF012825.2), OPV GCP2013 Akhmeta (KM046934–42), and OPV Tena Dona AK2015 (KX914668–76). New World strain RACV-MD19 (GenBank accession no. FJ807746–54) was added to the analysis as an outgroup. We generated multiple alignments with MUSCLE version 3.8.31 (30) and built the phylogenetic tree by using the Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo model with MRBAYES version 3.2.5 (31) using the general time-reversible plus gamma model with 1 million generations, retaining a minimum of 10,000 posterior probabilities, and maximum-likelihood model RaxML version 8.1.24 (32) using the general time-reversible plus gamma with 1,000 pseudoreplicates. Numbers represent the reliability of the nodes with the minimum probability of 75% and minimum bootstrap value of 75. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site. CMLV, camelpox virus; CPXV, cowpox virus; ECTV, ectromelia virus; MPXV, monkeypox virus; OPV, orthopoxvirus; RACV, raccoonpox virus; TATV, taterapox virus; VACV, vaccinia virus; VARV, variola virus.
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1Preliminary results from this study were presented at the Xth International Congress of the European Society for Veterinary Virology; August 31–September 3, 2015; Montpellier, France.
2These first authors were co–principal investigators who contributed equally to this article.