Volume 10, Number 12, December 2004

Identifying Rodent Hantavirus Reservoirs, Brazil

Akemi Suzuki,* Ivani Bisordi,* Silvana Levis,† Jorge Garcia,† Luiz E. Pereira,* Renato P. Souza,* Teresa K.N. Sugahara,* Noemi Pini,† Delia Enria,† and Luiza T.M. Souza*
*Instituto Adolfo Lutz–São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and †Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas Dr. Julio I. Maiztegui, Pergamino, Argentina

Figure 3. Phylogenetic relationship between newly and previously characterized Brazilian hantaviruses, using a 139-nt region of the M genomic segment G2 encoding region. Maximum parsimony analysis was performed by using the heuristic search option. Bootstrap values of >50%, obtained from 500 replicates of the analysis are shown. Abbreviations and GenBank accession numbers of the previously published sequences of the hantaviruses used in this study: Araraquara-AF307327 and Castelo dos Sonhos-AF307326; Juquitiba, JUQ (19).

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