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Volume 15, Number 12—December 2009
Dispatch

Dobrava-Belgrade Virus Spillover Infections, Germany

Mathias Schlegel1, Boris Klempa1, Brita Auste, Margrit Bemmann, Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit, Thomas Büchner, Martin H. Groschup, Markus Meier, Anne Balkema-Buschmann, Hinrich Zoller, Detlev H. Krüger, and Rainer G. UlrichComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut–Institute for Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany (M. Schlegel, T. Büchner, M.H. Groschup, A. Balkema-Buschmann, R.G. Ulrich); Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany (B. Klempa, B. Auste, D.H. Krüger); Institute of Slovak Academy of Science, Bratislava, Slovakia (B. Klempa); Landesforstanstalt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwerin, Germany (M. Bemmann); Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany (J. Schmidt-Chanasit); University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany (M. Meier); University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany (H. Zoller)

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Figure 2

Maximum-likelihood (ML) phylogenetic trees of Dobrava-Belgrade virus (DOBV) based on partial small (S) segment nucleotide sequences of 559 nt (position 377–935) (A) and complete nucleocapsid protein coding nucleotide sequences (S segment open reading frame) (B). The ML trees (Tamura-Nei evolutionary model) were calculated using TREE-PUZZLE package (www.tree-puzzle.de). Scale bars indicate an evolutionary distance of 0.1 substitutions per position in the sequence. Values above the branches repres

Figure 2. Maximum-likelihood (ML) phylogenetic trees of Dobrava-Belgrade virus (DOBV) based on partial small (S) segment nucleotide sequences of 559 nt (position 377–935) (A) and complete nucleocapsid protein coding nucleotide sequences (S segment open reading frame) (B). The ML trees (Tamura-Nei evolutionary model) were calculated using TREE-PUZZLE package (www.tree-puzzle.de). Scale bars indicate an evolutionary distance of 0.1 substitutions per position in the sequence. Values above the branches represent PUZZLE support values. Values below the branches are bootstrap values of the corresponding neighbor-joining tree (Tamura-Nei evolutionary model) calculated with the PAUP* software (paup.csit.fsu.edu) from 10,000 bootstrap pseudoreplicates. Only values >70% (considered significant) are shown. Different DOBV lineages are indicated by gray boxes. SANGV, Sangassou virus; HTNV, Hantaan virus; SEOV, Seoul virus; Saa, Saaremaa virus; Aa, Apodemus agrarius; Ap, A. ponticus; Af, A. flavicollis. WG, district Lüneburg, Lower Saxony (LS); Pe1 and Pe3, district Güstrow; H, district Nordvorpommern, K/A1, district Demmin, all Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (MWP); To and Ka, district Ostprignitz-Ruppin, Brandenburg (BB). Before tree construction, automated screening for recombination between the S segment sequences was performed using program RDP3 (15), which used 6 recombination detection programs: Bootscan, Chimeric, GENECONV, MaxChi, RDP, and SiScan with their default parameters. No putative recombinant regions could be conclusively detected by >3 programs and subsequently verified by phylogenetic trees.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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