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Volume 26, Number 5—May 2020
Research Letter

Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus Endemicity in United Arab Emirates, 2019

Jeremy V. CampComments to Author , Dafalla O. Kannan, Babiker Mohammed Osman, Moayyed Sher Shah, Brigitte Howarth, Tamer Khafaga, Pia Weidinger, Noushad Karuvantevida, Jolanta Kolodziejek, Hessa Mazrooei, Nadine Wolf, Tom Loney, and Norbert NowotnyComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria (J.V. Camp, P. Weidinger, J. Kolodziejek, N. Wolf, N. Nowotny); Al Ain City Municipality, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates (D.O. Kannan, B.M. Osman); Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (M. Sher Shah, T. Khafaga); Zayed University, Dubai (B. Howarth); Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai (N. Karuvantevida, H. Mazrooei, T. Loney, N. Nowotny)

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Molecular phylogeny of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever viruses from dromedary camel serum samples and ticks (green circles, thick branches), United Arab Emirates, 2019. A maximum-likelihood analysis of a 492-nt sequence of the viral small (S) segment (A) and 672-nt sequence of the viral medium (M) segment (B) were performed. Viruses are labeled by GenBank accession number, country of origin, isolate name, and year of identification and are colored according to S segment lineages following the gr

Figure. Molecular phylogeny of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever viruses from dromedary camel serum samples and ticks (green circles, thick branches), United Arab Emirates, 2019. A maximum-likelihood analysis of a 492-nt sequence of the viral small (S) segment (A) and 672-nt sequence of the viral medium (M) segment (B) were performed. Viruses are labeled by GenBank accession number, country of origin, isolate name, and year of identification and are colored according to S segment lineages following the group nomenclature (2): group I, West Africa 1; group II, Democratic Republic of the Congo; group III, South Africa and West Africa 2; group IV, Asia and the Middle East; group V, Europe and Turkey; group VI, Greece; and group VII (M segment only). Numbers beside branches are bootstrap values from 500 bootstrap replicates; only values >60% are shown. Scale bars indicate number of substitutions per site.

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