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Volume 31, Number 3—March 2025
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Genetic Diversity and Geographic Spread of Henipaviruses

Yakhouba Kane, Betty Nalikka, Alexander Tendu, Victor Omondi, Kathrina Mae Bienes, Abdou Padane, Veasna Duong, Nicolas Berthet, and Gary WongComments to Author 
Author affiliation: Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (Y. Kane); Institut Pasteur, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (B. Nalikka, A. Tendu, V. Omondi, K.M. Bienes, V. Duong, G. Wong); Institut de Recherche en Santé, de Surveillance Épidémiologique et de Formation, Dakar, Senegal (A. Padane); Institut Pasteur, Paris, France (N. Berthet); Institut Pasteur, Vientiane, Laos (G. Wong)

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Figure 1

Trend in paramyxovirus sequences submitted to the National Center for Biotechnology Information Virus database (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/virus), 1980–2023. A) Sequence count by collection year, showing all complete and partial sequences compared with all henipaviruses. B) Virus genera and sequence counts by major host group from the VIRION database (32).

Figure 1. Trend in paramyxovirus sequences submitted to the National Center for Biotechnology Information Virus database (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/virus), 1980–2023. A) Sequence count by collection year, showing all complete and partial sequences compared with all henipaviruses. B) Virus genera and sequence counts by major host group from the VIRION database (32).

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