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Volume 26, Number 2—February 2020
Research Letter

Persistence of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus RNA

Leholonolo Mathengtheng12, Dominique Goedhals2, Phillip A. Bester, Jacqueline Goedhals, and Felicity J. BurtComments to Author 
Author affiliations: National Health Laboratory Service, Bloemfontein, South Africa; University of the Free State, Bloemfontein

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Detection of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCFFV) from a retrospectively tested human serum sample that was among those collected during 2008–2011 from acutely ill patients with suspected rickettsial infection, South Africa. Phylogenetic tree was constructed using a 186-bp region of the CCHVF small gene encoding the nucleoprotein sequence. Nucleotide data was obtained in the study for samples designated VBD2/08S (serum-derived), VBD 2/08T (tissue-derived), and retrieved from GenBank for

Figure. Detection of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) from a retrospectively tested human serum sample that was among those collected during 2008–2011 from acutely ill patients with suspected rickettsial infection, South Africa. Phylogenetic tree was constructed using a 186-bp region of the CCHFV small gene encoding the nucleoprotein sequence. Nucleotide data were obtained in the study for samples designated VBD2/08S (serum-derived), VBD 2/08T (tissue-derived), and retrieved from GenBank for 29 CCHFV isolates from similar, or geographically distinct, regions (GenBank accession number available on request). The tree was constructed using MEGA X (https://www.megasoftware.net) and 1,000 bootstraps. Nodes with values <50 were omitted from the figure. Branch labels are name of isolate and country of origin. Genotypes are indicated at right. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.

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1Deceased.

2These authors contributed equally to this article.

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