Volume 12, Number 2, February 2006

Human Metapneumovirus, Peru

Gregory C. Gray,* Ana W. Capuano,* Sharon F. Setterquist,* Jose L. Sanchez,† James S. Neville,‡ James Olson,§ Mark G A Lebeck,* Troy McCarthy,* Yacine Abed,¶ and Guy Boivin¶
*University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City, Iowa, USA; †US Military HIV Research Program, Rockville, Maryland, USA; ‡Air Force Institute for Operational Health, Brooks City-Base, Texas, USA; §US Navy Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima, Peru; and ¶Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, Québec City, Québec, Canada

Figure. G-gene phylogenetic relationships of 6 human metapneumovirus (HMPV) isolates detected in South America during 2002 and 2003 compared to prototypic HMPV isolates from the Netherlands: NL/1/00, NL/17/00, NL/1/99, NL/1/94 (accession nos. AF371337, AY296021, AY525843, and AY296040, respectively) and from Canada: Can97-83, HMPV-13-00, CAN98-75, and HMPV-33-01 (accession nos. AY485253, AY485232, AY485245, and AY485242, respectively). Classification of genotypes was made according to previous reports (13,14).

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