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Volume 12, Number 1—January 2006
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Genetic Diversity of Sapovirus in Children, Australia

Grant S. Hansman*Comments to Author , Naokazu Takeda*, Kazuhiko Katayama*, Elise T.V. Tu†‡, Christopher J. McIver†‡, William D. Rawlinson†‡, and Peter A. White†
Author affiliations: *National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan; †University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; ‡Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Phylogenic tree of Sapovirus (SaV) sequences isolated in this study (represented in boldface). SaV nucleotide sequences were constructed with the partial N-terminal capsid region, using SaV PEC strain (a porcine SaV) as an outgroup. The numbers on the branches indicate the bootstrap values for the clusters. Bootstrap values >950 were considered statistically significant for the grouping (8). Asterisks indicate specimens collected from outpatients. The distance scale in nucleotide substitution

Figure. Phylogenic tree of Sapovirus (SaV) sequences isolated in this study (represented in boldface). SaV nucleotide sequences were constructed with the partial N-terminal capsid region, using SaV PEC strain (a porcine SaV) as an outgroup. The numbers on the branches indicate the bootstrap values for the clusters. Bootstrap values >950 were considered statistically significant for the grouping (8). Asterisks indicate specimens collected from outpatients. The distance scale in nucleotide substitutions per position is shown. Sydney isolates have been deposited in GenBank (accession nos. DQ104357–DQ104363). GenBank accession numbers for the reference strains are as follows: Arg39, AY289803; Bristol/98, AJ249939; C12, AY603425; cruise ship/2000, AY289804; Ehime1107, DQ058829; Houston/27/90, U95644; London/29845/90, U95645; Manchester, X86560; Mc2, AY237419; Mc10, AY237420; Mex340/1990, AF435812; NK24, AY646856; Parkville, U73124; PEC, AF182760; Sapporo/82, U65427; Stockholm/318/97, AF194182; Sakaeo15, AY646855; and SW278, DQ125333.

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CrossRef reports the first author should be "Hugo Johansson" not "Johansson" in reference 1 "Johansson, Bergentoft, Larsson, Magnusson, Widell, Thorhagen, et al., 2005".

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