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Volume 26, Number 4—April 2020
Dispatch

Person-to-Person Transmission of Andes Virus in Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, Argentina, 2014

Daniel O. Alonso, Unai Pérez-Sautu, Carla M. Bellomo, Karla Prieto, Ayelén Iglesias, Rocío Coelho, Natalia Periolo, Isabel Domenech, Gabriel Talmon, Romina Hansen, Gustavo Palacios, and Valeria P. MartinezComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas "Dr. C. Malbrán," Buenos Aires, Argentina (D.O. Alonso, C.M. Bellomo, A. Iglesias, R. Coelho, N. Periolo, V.P. Martinez); United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland, USA (U. Pérez-Sautu, K. Prieto, G. Palacios); University of Nebraska College of Public Health, Omaha, Nebraska, USA (K. Prieto); Hospital Zonal de Bariloche, Bariloche, Argentina (I. Domenech); Ministerio de Salud de la Provincia de Río Negro, Rio Negro, Argentina (G. Talmon); Hospital de Área El Bolsón, Rio Negro (R. Hansen)

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Table 2

Comparison of Andes virus south variant nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences from patients with hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, southwestern Argentina*

Virus Virus and genome segment
P2/P3
P1
NRC1
NRC2
ANDV-South AH1 strain
ANDV-South Chile-9717869
S M L S M L S M L S M L S M L S M L
P2/P3 100.0 100.0 99.96 95.4 94.5 94.7 98.6 98.7 98.7 96.4 95.4 NA 93.2 94.0 93.6
P1 100.0 100.0 100.0 95.4 94.5 94.7 98.6 98.7 98.7 96.4 95.4 NA 93.2 94.0 93.6
NRC1 99.5 98.95 98.7 99.5 98.95 98.7 95.1 94.5 94.5 95.5 94.7 NA 92.7 95.4 94.4
NRC2 100.0 99.6 99.5 100.0 99.6 99.5 99.5 98.6 98.6 96.2 95.2 NA 93.1 94.2 94.1
ANDV-South AH1 strain 100.0 98.4 NA 100.0 98.4 NA 99.5 98.8 NA 100.0 98.1 NA 93.3 94.5 NA
ANDV-South Chile-9717869 100.0 98.3 98.5 100.0 98.3 98.5 99.5 98.6 98.8 100.0 98.1 98.4 100.0 98.3 NA

*Values above the spaces indicate percent nucleotide sequence identity, and values below the spaces indicate percent amino acid sequence identity. ANDV, Andes virus; L, large; M, medium; NA, not available; S, small. ANDV-South AH1, GenBank accession nos.: AF004660 (S); AF324901 (M); L: not available; ANDV-South Chile-9717869, GenBank accession nos.: AF291702 (S); AF291703 (M); AF291704 (L); ANDV-South P1, GenBank accession nos.: MN850083 (S), MN850088 (M), MN850093 (L); ANDV-South P2: GenBank accession nos.: MN850084 (S), MN850089 (M), MN850094 (L); ANDV-South P3, GenBank accession nos.: MN850085 (S), MN850090 (M), MN850095 (L); ANDV-South NRC1, GenBank accession nos.: MN850086 (S), MN850091 (M), MN850096 (L); ANDV-South NRC2, GenBank accession nos.: MN850087 (S), MN850092 (M), MN850097 (L).

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