1. Phylogeny of Murray Valley encephalitis virus in Australia and Papua New Guinea
Eleonora CELLA ; Marta GIOVANETTI ; Alessandra Lo PRESTI ; Massimo CICCOZZI ; Eleonora CELLA ; Ivan GABRIELLI ; Gianguglielmo ZEHENDER ; Alessia LAI ; Marta GIOVANETTI ; Giordano DICUONZO ; Silvia ANGELETTI ; Marco SALEMI ; Massimo CICCOZZI
Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine 2016;9(4):385-389
Objective: To study the genetic diversity of Murray Valley encephalitis virus (MVEV) in Australia and Papua New Guinea. Methods: MVEV envelope gene sequences were aligned using Clustal X and manual editing was performed with Bioedit. ModelTest v. 3.7 was used to select the simplest evolutionary model that adequately fitted the sequence data. Maximum likelihood analysis was performed using PhyML. The phylogenetic signal of the dataset was investigated by the likelihood mapping analysis. The Bayesian phylogenetic tree was built using BEAST. Results: The phylogenetic trees showed two main clades. The clade I including eight strains isolated from West Australia. The clade II was characterized by at least four epidemic entries, three of which localized in Northern West Australia and one in Papua New Guinea. The estimated mean evolutionary rate value of the MVEV envelope gene was 0.407 × 10
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