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Volume 28, Number 2—February 2022
Research

Widespread Detection of Multiple Strains of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Ticks, Spain

María Paz Sánchez-SecoComments to Author , María José Sierra, Agustín Estrada-Peña, Félix Valcárcel, Ricardo Molina, Eva Ramírez de Arellano, Angeles Sonia Olmeda, Lucía García San Miguel, Maribel Jiménez, Luis J. Romero, Anabel Negredo, and Group for CCHFv Research
Author affiliations: CIBER Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC), Madrid, Spain (M.P. Sánchez-Seco, M.J. Sierra, R. Molina, A. Negredo); Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain (A. Estrada-Peña); Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, Madrid (F. Valcárcel); Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid (E. Ramírez de Arellano, M. Jiménez); Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid (A.S. Olmeda); Ministerio de Sanidad, Consumo y Bienestar, Madrid (L. García San Miguel); Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Pesca, Madrid (L.J. Romero)

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Figure 2

Phylogenetic tree obtained for strains of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus detected in Spain (black dots) and other sequences downloaded from GenBank. We built the phylogenetic tree using the neighbor-joining method based on partial (175 nt) sequences of the virus small segment. Numbers in nodes indicate bootstrap values for the groups; values <75 are not shown. Strains detected from Spain are named by geographic origin, locality sampling site, and sampling year; other sequences are named by GenBank accession number, strain, geographic origin, and sampling year. Asterisks indicate sequences from this study that have been submitted to the EMBL (https://www.embl.org) and GenBank databases. Genotypes are indicated by Roman numerals: I, West Africa (Africa 1); II, Central Africa (Africa 2); III, South and West Africa (Africa 3); IV, Middle East/Asia, divided into groups corresponding to groups Asia 1 and Asia 2; V, Europe/Turkey (Europe 1); VI, Greece (Europe 2). Using guidelines published elsewhere (25,26), we then named and labeled the genotypes with equivalent clade nomenclature indicated in parentheses. Scale bar indicates substitutions/site (evolutionary distance).

Figure 2. Phylogenetic tree obtained for strains of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus detected in Spain (black dots) and other sequences downloaded from GenBank. We built the phylogenetic tree using the neighbor-joining method based on partial (175 nt) sequences of the virus small segment. Numbers in nodes indicate bootstrap values for the groups; values <75 are not shown. Strains detected from Spain are named by geographic origin, locality sampling site, and sampling year; other sequences are named by GenBank accession number, strain, geographic origin, and sampling year. Asterisks indicate sequences from this study that have been submitted to the EMBL (https://www.embl.org) and GenBank databases. Genotypes are indicated by Roman numerals: I, West Africa (Africa 1); II, Central Africa (Africa 2); III, South and West Africa (Africa 3); IV, Middle East/Asia, divided into groups corresponding to groups Asia 1 and Asia 2; V, Europe/Turkey (Europe 1); VI, Greece (Europe 2). Using guidelines published elsewhere (25,26), we then named and labeled the genotypes with equivalent clade nomenclature indicated in parentheses. Scale bar indicates substitutions/site (evolutionary distance).

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