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Volume 7, Number 4—August 2001
THEME ISSUE
West Nile Virus
West Nile Virus

The Relationships between West Nile and Kunjin Viruses

Jacqueline H. Scherret*, Michael Poidinger†, John S. Mackenzie*, Annette K. Broom‡, Vincent Deubel§, W. Ian Lipkin¶, Thomas Briese¶, Ernest A. Gould#, and Roy A. Hall*Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; †Bioinformatics Inc., Eveleigh, New South Wales, Australia; ‡University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia; §Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; ¶University of California, Irvine, California, USA; #Institute of Virology and Environmental Microbiology, Oxford, England

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Table 1

West Nile and Kunjin virus isolates and nucleotide sequences used in this study

Year of Source of Place of
Virus ID isolation isolation isolation GenBank Accession Number
KUN35911 1984 Horse brain Hunter Valley, NSW,a AU AF196511 (E gene)
KUNP1553b 1994 Culex sp. Marble Bar, WA, AU AF297856 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196495 (E gene)
KUNCH16465C 1974 Cx. ann. CH, Qld, AU AF297841 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196504 (E gene)
KUNCH16514C 1974 Cx. ann. CH AF297842 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196501 (E gene)
KUNCH16532C 1974 Cx. ann. CH AF297843 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196513 (E gene)
KUNCH16549E 1974 Cx. ann. CH AF297844 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196520 (E gene)
KUNM695 1982 Cx. ann. Victoria, AU AF297852 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196496 (E gene)
KUNM1465 1983 Cx. ann. Victoria, AU AF297851 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196522 (E gene)
KUNMRM5373 1966 Oriolus flavocintus (bird) MRM, Qld, AU AF297859 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196509 (E gene)
KUNMRM16 1960 Cx. ann. MRM AF196505 (E gene)
KUNMRM61C 1960 Cx. ann. MRM AF196516 (E gene)
KUNOR130 1973 Cx. ann. OR, East Kimberley, WA, AU AF297857 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196492 (E gene)
KUNOR134 1973 Cx. ann. OR AF196506 (E gene)
KUNOR166 1973 Cx. ann. OR AF196499 (E gene)
KUNOR205 1973 Aedes tremulus OR AF297858 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196515 (E gene)
KUNOR354 1974 Cx. ann. OR AF297855 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196518 (E gene)
KUNOR393 1974 Cx. ann. OR AF196503 (E gene)
KUNOR4 1972 Cx. ann. OR AF196523 (E gene)
KUNCX255 1982 Cx. ann. Wyndham, East Kimberley AF297845 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196514 (E gene)
KUNCX238 1982 Cx. ann. Wyndham, East Kimberley AF196502 (E gene)
KUNBoort 1984 Horse spinal cord Boort, Victoria, AU AF297840 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196519 (E gene)
KUNFC15 1986 Cx. ann. West Kimberley, WA, AU AF297846 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196510 (E gene)
KUNHu6774 1991 Human Southern NSW, AU AF297847 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196493 (E gene)
KUNK6547 1991 Cx. ann. SE Kimberley, WA, AU AF196521 (E gene)
KUNK1738 1989 Cx. ann. OR AF297848 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196494 (E gene)
KUNK5374 1989 Cx. ann. SE Kimberley, WA, AU AF297849 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196517 (E gene)
KUNK2499 1984 Cx. ann. OR AF196498 (E gene)
KUNK6590 1991 Cx. ann. Broome, West Kimberley, WA, AU AF297850 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196500 (E gene)
KUNSH183 1991 Chicken Victoria, AU AF297853 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196491 (E gene)
KUNWK436 1979 Cx. ann. Camballin, West Kimberley, WA, AU AF297854 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196507 (E gene)
KUNV407 1983 Cx. ann. Jabiru, NT, AU AF196508 (E gene)
KUNMP502-66 1966 Cx. pseudovishnui Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia AF196534 (E gene)
HB6343 1989 Human CAR AF196542 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196528 (E gene)
ArTB3573 1982 Tick CAR AF196541 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196527 (E gene)
MgAn798 1978 Coracopsis vasa (bird) Madagascar AF196543 (NS5-3'UTR)
63134Ent 280 <1963 Human Uganda AF196539 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196530 (E gene)
ArA1Dj 1968 Mosquito Algeria AF196536 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196529 (E gene)
ArNa1047 unknown Mosquito Kenya AF196535 (NS5-3'UTR)
G2266 1955 Cx. vishnui Sathuperi, India AF196537 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196525 (E gene)
G22886 1958 Cx. vishnui Sathuperi, India AF196538 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196524 (E gene)
804994 1980 Human brain biopsy Bangalore Field Station, Karnataka, India AF196540 (NS5-3'UTR) AF196526 (E gene)
Sarafend unknown unknown unknown AF196533 (E gene)
KOU DakAad 5443 1968 Tatera kempi (rodent) Senegal, Africa AF196532 (E gene)

aNSW = New South Wales; AU = Australia; WA = Western Australia; Cx. ann. = Culex annulirostris; CH = Charleville; Qld = Queensland; MRM = Mitchell River Mission; OR = Ord River; NT = Northern Territory; CAR = Central African Republic; UTR = untranslated region.
bP1553 was isolated from a culture of C6/36 cells inoculated with culture fluid derived from a mosquito pool from which Edge Hill (EH) virus had also been isolated (Annette Broom, pers. comm.).

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