Fatal Tickborne Phlebovirus Infection in Captive Cheetahs, Japan
Keita Matsuno
, Noriyuki Nonoue, Ayako Noda, Nodoka Kasajima, Keita Noguchi, Ai Takano, Hiroshi Shimoda, Yasuko Orba, Mieko Muramatsu, Yoshihiro Sakoda, Ayato Takada, Shinji Minami, Yumi Une, Shigeru Morikawa, and Ken Maeda
Author affiliations: Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (K. Matsuno, Y. Sakoda, A. Takada); Hiroshima City Asa Zoological Park, Hiroshima, Japan (N. Nonoue, A. Noda, S. Minami); Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo (N. Kasajima, Y. Orba, M. Muramatsu, A. Takada); Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan (K. Noguchi, A. Takano, H. Shimoda, K. Maeda); Okayama University of Science, Imabari, Japan (Y. Une); National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan (S. Morikawa)
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Figure 2. Phylogenetic analyses of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) isolates from 2 cheetahs, Japan, 2017. The phylogenetic trees constructed based on large (A), medium (B), and small (C) segment RNA nucleotide sequences of isolates SkrP/2017 from cheetah 1 and ArtSp/2017 from cheetah 2 (underlined) with representative SFTSV isolates. Isolates from human cases reported in the same prefecture as the zoo are indicated with black dots. The trees were calculated using MrBayes version 3.2.6 (http://mrbayes.sourceforge.net) with the general time reversible plus gamma plus invariate sites substitution model. Numbers beside nodes indicate posterior probabilities. Scale bars indicate nucleotide substitutions per site.
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