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Volume 25, Number 2—February 2019
Dispatch

Rift Valley Fever Reemergence after 7 Years of Quiescence, South Africa, May 2018

Petrus Jansen van Vuren, Joe Kgaladi, Veerle Msimang, and Janusz T. PaweskaComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

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Figure 2

Maximum-likelihood tree showing the phylogeny of Rift Valley fever virus isolate SA344-18, collected in South Africa in May 2018, on the basis of a 490-nt fragment of the medium segment. Lineage names according to the nomenclature of Grobbelaar et al. (5) are indicated. Maximum-likelihood analysis was performed in RAxML version 8.2.10 (http://evomics.org/learning/phylogenetics/raxml); 100,000 bootstrap replicates were performed. Bootstrap values are shown at the nodes. Scale bar indicates nucleo

Figure 2. Maximum-likelihood tree showing the phylogeny of Rift Valley fever virus isolate SA344-18, collected in South Africa in May 2018, on the basis of a 490-nt fragment of the medium segment. Lineage names according to the nomenclature of Grobbelaar et al. (5) are indicated. Maximum-likelihood analysis was performed in RAxML version 8.2.10 (http://evomics.org/learning/phylogenetics/raxml); 100,000 bootstrap replicates were performed. Bootstrap values are shown at the nodes. Scale bar indicates nucleotide changes per base pair. ANG, Angola; CAR, Central African Republic; EGY, Egypt; GIN, Guinea; KEN, Kenya; MAD, Madagascar; MAU, Mauritania; NAM, Namibia; PRC, China; RSA, South Africa; SAU, Saudi Arabia; SEN, Senegal; SOM, Somalia; UGA, Uganda; ZAM, Zambia; ZIM, Zimbabwe.

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