Volume 18, Number 5—May 2012
Research
Novel Strain of Andes Virus Associated with Fatal Human Infection, Central Bolivia
, Efrain Vallejo, Roberto Agudo, Jorge Vargas, David L. Blazes, Carolina Guevara, V. Alberto Laguna-Torres, Eric S. Halsey, and Tadeusz J. Kochel
Table 1
Percent pairwise nucleotide and amino acid identity between select Western Hemisphere hantaviruses and virus sequences amplified from patients from central Bolivia*
| Virus strain | Country | S segment (1,287 bp) |
M segment (1,330 bp) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nucleotide | Amino acid | Nucleotide | Amino acid | |||
| PRGV | Argentina | 81.4 | 94.6 | 80.8 | 93.0 | |
| ANDV AH1 | Argentina | 83.5 | 96.0 | 81.7 | 93.9 | |
| ANDV Hu39694 | Argentina | 82.0 | 97.4 | 81.7 | 95.3 | |
| MACV | Argentina | 81.7 | 94.2 | 80.2 | 91.4 | |
| BMJV | Argentina | 83.7 | 97.7 | 80.2 | 93.9 | |
| LECV | Argentina | 84.1 | 97.4 | 81.1 | 95.0 | |
| ORNV | Argentina | 83.5 | 97.4 | 80.3 | 95.3 | |
| CASV†‡ | Brazil | 89.3 | 98.6 | 83.3 | 95.1 | |
| PARV | Brazil | 82.9 | 95.3 | NA | NA | |
| ARAV§ | Brazil | 84.0 | 94.9 | 79.5 | 93.2 | |
| JABV | Brazil | 77.3 | 88.6 | NA | NA | |
| ARCV | Brazil | 82.2 | 95.8 | NA | NA | |
| ANDV 9717869 | Chile | 83.5 | 96.0 | 80.7 | 93.7 | |
| ANDV CHI7913 | Chile | 82.7 | 95.6 | 81.1 | 92.8 | |
| CATV | Honduras | 76.9 | 88.1 | 76.0 | 86.2 | |
| PDOV | Mexico | 77.4 | 87.4 | 75.8 | 85.4 | |
| CHOV | Panama | 78.9 | 89.3 | 77.8 | 88.0 | |
| NEMV | Paraguay | 84.9 | 97.0 | NA | NA | |
| ALPV | Paraguay | 80.3 | 89.3 | NA | NA | |
| ITAPV | Paraguay | 81.7 | 95.8 | NA | NA | |
| JUQV‡ | Paraguay | 82.5 | 95.5 | NA | NA | |
| LNV | Paraguay | 79.4 | 90.2 | 79.2 | 90.5 | |
| RIOMV | Peru | 80.1 | 90.0 | 80.6 | 91.4 | |
| SNV NMH10 | USA | 76.5 | 87.2 | 76.0 | 86.2 | |
| ELMCV RM97 | USA | 76.8 | 83.9 | 73.8 | 82.8 | |
| MAPV | Venezuela | 79.6 | 91.1 | 77.8 | 89.8 | |
| CADV | Venezuela | 75.8 | 85.3 | 74.3 | 83.1 | |
*S, small; M, medium; PRGV, Pergamino virus; ANDV, Andes virus; MACV, Maciel virus; BMJV, Bermejo virus; LECV, Lechiguanas virus; ORNV, Oran virus; CASV, Castelo dos Sonhos virus; PARV, Paranoa virus; ; NA, sufficient sequence not available for comparison; ARAV, Araraquara virus; JABV, Jabora virus; ARCV, Araucaria virus; CATV, Catacamas virus; PDOV, El Moro Canyon virus; CHOV, Choclo virus; NEMV, Neembucu virus; ALPV, Alta Paraguay virus; ITAPV, Itaporanga virus; JUQV, Juquitiba virus; LNV, Laguna Negra virus; RIOMV, Río Mamoré virus; SNV, Sin Nombre virus; ELMCV, El Moro Canyon virus; MAPV, Maporal virus; CADV, Caño Delgadito virus.
†S segment sequence comparison was limited to the homologous 999 bp (JUQV) or 643 bp (CASV) available from GenBank.
‡M segment sequence comparison was limited to the homologous 1,246 bp available from GenBank.