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Volume 15, Number 2—February 2009
Letter

Sporadic Oropouche Infection, Acre, Brazil

Ana Carolina Bernardes Terzian, Roberta Vieira de Moraes Bronzoni, Betânia Paiva Drumond, Mônica Da Silva-Nunes, Natal Santos da Silva, Marcelo Urbano Ferreira, Márcia Aparecida Sperança, and Maurício Lacerda NogueiraComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil (A.C. Bernardes Terzian, R.V. de Moraes Bronzoni, M.L. Nogueira); IBILCE–São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo (A.C. Bernardes Terzian); Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros, Montes Claros, Brazil (B.P. Drumond); Instituto de Ciências Biológicas/Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo (M. Da Silva-Nunes, N. Santos da Silva, M.U. Ferreira); Faculdade de Medicina de Marília, São Paulo (M.A. Sperança)

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Phylogenetic tree of Oropouche virus strains; boldface shows the sample from the patient in this study. Phylogenetic tree was constructed from partial nucleocapsid gene sequence (522 nt, 27–200 aa) by neighbor-joining method implemented in MEGA 3.0 software (9). Kimura 2-parameter nucleotide substitution model was used, and the reliability of the branching patterns was tested by 1,000 bootstrap pseudo replicates. Bootstrap values (%) are shown in main nodes. Aino, Akabane, and Tinaroo viruses we

Figure. Phylogenetic tree of Oropouche virus strains; boldface shows the sample from the patient in this study. Phylogenetic tree was constructed from partial nucleocapsid gene sequence (522 nt, 27–200 aa) by neighbor-joining method implemented in MEGA 3.0 software (9). Kimura 2-parameter nucleotide substitution model was used, and the reliability of the branching patterns was tested by 1,000 bootstrap pseudo replicates. Bootstrap values (%) are shown in main nodes. Aino, Akabane, and Tinaroo viruses were used as the out group. The scale bar represents 5% nucleotide sequence divergence. GenBank accession numbers are provided and are grouped by strain designation. GI, genotype I; GII, genotype II; GIII, genotype III.

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