Global Distribution of Rubella Virus Genotypes
Du-Ping Zheng*
1, Teryl K. Frey*

, Joseph P. Icenogle†, Shigetaka Katow†‡, Emily S. Abernathy*†, Ki-Joon Song§, Wen-Bo Xu¶, Vitaly Yarulin#, R.G. Desjatskova#, Yair Aboudy**, Gisela Enders††, and Margaret Croxson‡‡
Author affiliations: *Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ‡National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan; §Korea University, Seoul, Korea; ¶Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China; #Institute of Viral Preparations, Moscow, Russia; **Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel; ††Institute for Virology, Infectiology and Epidemiology, Stuttgart, Germany; ‡‡Auckland Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
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Table 2
Intra- and intergoup genetic distances among rubella genotype I (RGI) and RGII clustersa
Genotype/cluster |
Intragroup variability |
Mean distance from
|
RGII |
RGIIA |
RGIIB |
RGIIC |
RGI
|
0.08–5.75
|
7.28
|
7.59
|
6.20
|
8.21
|
RGII
|
0–7.95
|
|
|
|
|
RGIIA
|
0–5.41
|
|
|
7.24
|
7.13
|
RGIIB
|
0.42–1.95
|
|
|
|
7.19
|
RGIIC |
2.54 |
|
|
|
|
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