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Volume 24, Number 9—September 2018
Research Letter

Spondweni Virus in Field-Caught Culex quinquefasciatus Mosquitoes, Haiti, 2016

Sarah K. White1Comments to Author , John A. Lednicky, Bernard A. Okech, J. Glenn Morris, and James C. Dunford
Author affiliations: University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA (S.K. White, J.A. Lednicky, B.A. Okech, J.G. Morris, Jr.); US Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center, Portsmouth, Virginia, USA (J.C. Dunford)

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Table 1

Comparison of nucleotide identity of representative strains of SPONV and Zika virus, Haiti*

Virus type and nucleotide GenBank accession no. (country of origin, year)
 Nucleotide identity, %
SPONV, GenBank accession no.
Zika virus, GenBank accession no.
MG182017
 DQ859064
 KX227369
 KY989511
 KU501215
 MF384325
SPONV MG182017 (Haiti, 2016) 100 98.8 96.8 70.7 70.4 70.4
SPONV DQ859064 (S. Africa, 1954) 100 97.8 70.9 70.6 70.7
SPONV KX227369 (Nigeria, 1952) 100 71.1 70.8 70.8
Zika virus KY989511 (Uganda, 1947) 100 89.0 89.0
Zika virus KU501215 (Puerto Rico, 2015) 100 99.6
Zika virus MF384325 (Haiti, 2016) 100

*SPONV, Spondweni virus.

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1Current affiliation: Brammer Bio, Alachua, Florida, USA.

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