Volume 21, Number 1—January 2015
Dispatch
Enzootic Transmission of Yellow Fever Virus, Venezuela
Albert J. Auguste, Philippe Lemey, Nicholas A. Bergren, Dileyvic Giambalvo, Maria Moncada, Dulce Morón, Rosa Hernandez, Juan-Carlos Navarro, and Nikos Vasilakis
Table 2
Nucleotide and amino acid divergence among individual YFV genes of 9 representative YFV strains compared to the TVP11767* strain†
| Genes | Strain, nucleotide (amino acid) divergence, % |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BeH622205 (B, 2000) | BeAR513008 (B, 1992) | BeH423602 (B, 1984) | BeH413820 (B, 1983) | BeH394880 (B, 1981) | BeH655417 (B, 2002) | 6A (V, 2005) | 9A (V, 2007) | 10A (V, 2010) | |
| Capsid | 98.3 (100) | 98.0 (100) | 97.2 (100) | 91.2 (97.4) | 96.3 (100) | 97.2 (99.1) | 97.2 (99.1) | 97.2 (99.1) | 96.6 (100) |
| PreM/M | 97.7 (99.4) | 96.7 (100) | 91.2 (98.1) | 97.3 (100) | 97.3 (100) | 96.2 (99.4) | 97.7 (100) | 97.7 (100) | 97.7 (100) |
| E | 98.2 (100) | 96.3 (100) | 89.6 (98.6) | 96.9 (100) | 97.5 (100) | 96.6 (100) | 97.2 (100) | 97.0 (100) | 97.6 (100) |
| NS1 | 97.9 (99.7) | 97.3 (100) | 90.5 (99.4) | 97.5 (99.7) | 98.1 (100) | 96.8 (99.7) | 98.7 (100) | 98.4 (100) | 98.6 (100) |
| NS2A&B | 97.4 (100) | 96.2 (99.4) | 90.4 (99.4) | 96.8 (100) | 97.6 (100) | 95.8 (99.1) | 97.2 (100) | 96.9 (99.4) | 97.6 (100) |
| NS3 | 97.4 (100) | 96.7 (100) | 88.4 (100) | 97.4 (100) | 97.4 (100) | 96.3 (100) | 97.4 (100) | 97.4 (100) | 96.7 (100) |
| NS4A&B | 98.2 (100) | 96.8 (99.7) | 90.3 (98.7) | 97.1 (99.7) | 97.8 (100) | 97.1 (99.7) | 98.1 (99.7) | 98.0 (99.7) | 98.2 (100) |
| NS5 | 98.3 (99.8) | 96.6 (99.8) | 91.1 (99.1) | 96.8 (99.8) | 98.0 (100) | 96.6 (100) | 98.4 (100) | 98.1 (100) | 98.2 (100) |
*First South American complete genome sequence to be published. TVP11767 was isolated in 2009 from an Alouatta seniculus specimen in Trinidad.
†YFV, yellow fever virus; B, Brazil; V, Venezuela; M, membrane; E, envelope; NS, nonstructural.
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