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Volume 12, Number 2—February 2006
Dispatch

Novel Dengue Virus Type 1 from Travelers to Yap State, Micronesia

Yoko Nukui*†, Shigeru Tajima*, Akira Kotaki*, Mikako Ito*, Tomohiko Takasaki*, Kazuhiko Koike†, and Ichiro Kurane*Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan; †University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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Phylogenetic tree based on the full-length genome sequence of 21 available dengue virus (DENV) type 1 strains and DENV-2, -3, and -4. The multiple sequence alignments were obtained with ClustalX, and the tree was constructed by the neighbor-joining method. The percentage of successful bootstrap replicates is indicated at the nodes. The NIID04-27 strain is indicated in boldface. Genotypes I, II, IV, and V correspond to DENV-1 genotypes as defined by Goncalvez et al. (10).

Figure 2. Phylogenetic tree based on the full-length genome sequence of 21 available dengue virus (DENV) type 1 strains and DENV-2, -3, and -4. The multiple sequence alignments were obtained with ClustalX, and the tree was constructed by the neighbor-joining method. The percentage of successful bootstrap replicates is indicated at the nodes. The NIID04-27 strain is indicated in boldface. Genotypes I, II, IV, and V correspond to DENV-1 genotypes as defined by Goncalvez et al. (10).

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