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Phylogenetic and evolutionary analyses of St. Louis encephalitis virus genomes.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 May 2008
Baillie Gregory J, Kolokotronis Sergios-Orestis, Waltari Eric, Maffei Joseph G, Kramer Laura D, Perkins Susan L
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St. Louis encephalitis virus belongs to the Japanese encephalitis virus serocomplex of the genus Flavivirus, family Flaviviridae. Since the first known epidemic in 1933, the virus has been isolated from a variety of geographical, temporal, and host origins. We have sequenced 10,236 nucleotides of the open reading frame (93.6% of the full-length genome) of 23 of these strains, and have used the sequences to...
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