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Volume 11, Number 11—November 2005
Research

Toscana Virus in Spain

Sara Sanbonmatsu-Gámez*1, Mercedes Pérez-Ruiz*1, Ximena Collao†, María Paz Sánchez-Seco†, Francisco Morillas-Márquez‡, Manuel de la Rosa-Fraile*, José María Navarro-Marí*, and Antonio Tenorio†
Author affiliations: *Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain; †Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; ‡Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

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Figure 2

Phylogenetic trees illustrating the relationship between representatives of different phleboviruses and the Spanish Toscana virus (TOSV) within the nucleotide (nt, L) and the deduced amino acid sequences (aa, L) of the L (partial) gene. GR40 and GR41 correspond to TOSV isolates obtained from sand flies. GR79 corresponds to a reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction–positive pool of sandflies. STI1–STI11 were recovered from patients with aseptic meningitis diagnosed from 1988 to 2002 as de

Figure 2. Phylogenetic trees illustrating the relationship between representatives of different phleboviruses and the Spanish Toscana virus (TOSV) within the nucleotide (nt, L) and the deduced amino acid sequences (aa, L) of the L (partial) gene. GR40 and GR41 correspond to TOSV isolates obtained from sand flies. GR79 corresponds to a reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction–positive pool of sandflies. STI1–STI11 were recovered from patients with aseptic meningitis diagnosed from 1988 to 2002 as described in (17). Abbreviations and GenBank accession numbers are indicated in the text. Bootstrapping values >50 are indicated at the nodes.

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