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Volume 32, Number 10—October 2026

Dispatch

Whole-Genome Sequencing of Measles Virus from 2025 Outbreak, Texas, USA

Piyada JuntawongComments to Author , Bonnie Oh, Richard Bovio, Jie Lu, Sydney Stanley, Robert F. Potter, Yan Sun, Casey Schroeder, Olivia A. Smith, Elise Huebner, Stephen L. White, Saroj Rai, Varun Shetty, and Grace Kubin
Author affiliation: Texas Department of State Health Services, Austin, Texas, USA (P. Juntawong, B. Oh, R. Bovio, J. Lu, Y. Sun, C. Schroeder, O.A. Smith, E. Huebner, S.L. White, S. Rai, V. Shetty, G. Kubin); Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (S. Stanley, R.F. Potter); Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (S. Stanley, R.F. Potter)

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Figure 4

Pairwise SNP-distance distributions among genomes in the focal expanding North American genotype D8 lineage from study of whole-genome sequencing of measles virus from 2025 outbreak, Texas, USA. Violin plots show distributions of pairwise SNP distances within Texas, Utah, Arizona, and South Carolina and between Texas and each comparison jurisdiction. Embedded boxplots show medians (horizonal lines) and interquartile ranges (box tops and bottoms); whiskers indicate the most extreme values within 1.5x the interquartile range below the first quartile or above the third quartile. Wider sections of violins indicate greater density of pairwise comparisons. SNP, single-nucleotide polymorphism.

Figure 4. Pairwise SNP-distance distributions among genomes in the focal expanding North American genotype D8 lineage from study of whole-genome sequencing of measles virus from 2025 outbreak, Texas, USA. Violin plots show distributions of pairwise SNP distances within Texas, Utah, Arizona, and South Carolina and between Texas and each comparison jurisdiction. Embedded boxplots show medians (horizonal lines) and interquartile ranges (box tops and bottoms); whiskers indicate the most extreme values within 1.5x the interquartile range below the first quartile or above the third quartile. Wider sections of violins indicate greater density of pairwise comparisons. SNP, single-nucleotide polymorphism.

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