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Insights on Zika virus envelope gene conservation in American outbreaks.
Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] - 1 Dec 2020
Thomazella Mateus V, Lima Neto Quirino A, Duarte Junior Francisco F, Jorge Fernando A, de Castro Moreira Déborah, Leal Junior Amauri D, Presibella Mayra M, Riediger Irina N, da Silva Rafael A, de Carvalho Isabel Maria V G, Bertolini Dennis A
Abstract excerpt
Phylogenetic studies with Zika virus (ZIKV) have been conducted in Brazil. In this study, we sequenced 8 new sequences of the ZIKV envelope (E) gene from strains of cases from the Paraná and Mato Grosso do Sul states in 2016. A low phylogenetic signal was observed, with more than 40% of unresolved quartets, and the Maximum Likelihood Tree grouped all sequences in the Brazilian branches within the Asian genotype....
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