Volume 6, Number 5—October 2000
Research
Imported Lassa Fever in Germany: Molecular Characterization of a New Lassa Virus Strain
Stephan Günther
, Petra Emmerich, Thomas Laue, Olaf Kühle, Marcel Asper, Annegret Jung, Thomas Grewing, Jan ter Meulen, and Herbert Schmitz
, Petra Emmerich, Thomas Laue, Olaf Kühle, Marcel Asper, Annegret Jung, Thomas Grewing, Jan ter Meulen, and Herbert Schmitz
Table
Nucleotide and amino acid differences between Lassa strains in S RNA coding regions
| Changes at third codon positions | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nucleotide difference (%) in: | per total changes (%) in: | Amino acid difference (%) in: | ||||
| Strainsa | GPC | NP | GPC | NP | GPC | NP |
| AV vs. JOS | 16.5 | 19.6 | 84.4 | 81.5 | 5.1 | 6.0 |
| AV vs. NIG | 20.3 | 21.3 | 83.7 | 78.3 | 6.7 | 8.1 |
| NIG vs. JOS | 19.2 | 22.4 | 83.7 | 77.1 | 6.9 | 8.9 |
aAV, strain AV; JOS, strain Josiah; NIG, strain Nigeria; GPC = glycoprotein precursor protein; NP = nucleoprotein
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