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Volume 20, Number 7—July 2014
Dispatch

Widespread Rotavirus H in Commercially Raised Pigs, United States

Douglas MarthalerComments to Author , Kurt Rossow, Marie Culhane, Sagar Goyal, Jim Collins, Jelle Matthijnssens, Martha Nelson, and Max Ciarlet
Author affiliations: University of Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA (D. Marthaler, K. Rossow, M. Culhane, S. Goyal, J. Collins); University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (J. Matthijnssens); Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (M. Nelson); Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (Max Ciarlet)

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Table 1

Nucleotide and amino acid percentage identities of RVH*

RVH type US porcine RVH, % Japan porcine RVH, % Brazil porcine RVH, % Human RVH, %
US porcine RVH
Nucleotide 91–100 89.2–91.9 85.2–86.8 70.4–72.8
Amino acid
97–100
96.5–98.2
95.7–97.7
75.3–76.8
Japan porcine RVH
Nucleotide 89.2–91.9 NA 85.5 71.7–72.3
Amino acid
96.5–98.2
NA
97
76.5-76.8
Brazil porcine RVH
Nucleotide 85.2–86.8 85.5 100 71.1–71.2
Amino acid
95.7–97.7
97
100
75.8-76
Human RVH
Nucleotide 70.4–72.8 71.7-72.3 71.1-71.2 94–100
Amino acid 75.3–76.8 76.5–76.8 75.8–76 98.7–100

*RVH, rotavirus H; NA, not applicable

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