Volume 13, Number 9—September 2007
Dispatch
Hantavirus in Northern Short-tailed Shrew, United States
Satoru Arai*, Jin-Won Song†, Laarni Sumibcay*, Shannon N. Bennett*, Vivek R. Nerurkar*, Cheryl Parmenter‡, Joseph A. Cook‡, Terry L. Yates‡, and Richard Yanagihara*
Table 2
Nucleotide and amino acid sequence similarities of partial medium (M) and large (L) segments of Camp Ripley virus and other hantaviruses*
| M Segment |
L Segment |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virus | Strain | 1,390 nt | 436 aa | 490 nt | 163 aa | |
| Hantaan | 76–118 | 65.6 | 66.9 | 71.2 | 79.3 | |
| Soochong | SC-1 | 65.2 | 64.4 | 73.2 | 77.3 | |
| Dobrava | AP99 | 66.4 | 67.3 | 72.5 | 79.0 | |
| Seoul | HR80–39 | 65.8 | 67.1 | 71.3 | 77.7 | |
| Sangassou | SA14 | 62.6 | 58.7 | 69.3 | 78.8 | |
| Puumala | Sotkamo | 60.1 | 55.0 | 71.6 | 72.3 | |
| Tula | M5302v | 61.9 | 54.6 | 67.2 | 69.3 | |
| Prospect Hill | PH-1 | 58.1 | 52.6 | NA | NA | |
| Sin Nombre | NMH10 | 60.3 | 57.0 | 65.9 | 65.5 | |
| Andes | Chile 9717869 | 60.2 | 56.3 | 70.2 | 69.2 | |
| El Moro Canyon | RM97 | 59.8 | 56.5 | NA | NA | |
| Tanganya | Tan826 | NA | NA | 72.3 | 75.5 | |
*Values are percentages. NA, not available.
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