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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2002, p. 3684-3688, Vol. 40, No. 10
0095-1137/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.40.10.3684-3688.2002
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Analysis of Intratypic Variation Evident in an Ibaraki Virus Strain and Its Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease Virus Serogroup

Laboratory of Clinical Virology, Kyushu Research Station, National Institute of Animal Health, Kagoshima 891-0105, Japan

Received 26 December 2001/ Returned for modification 21 April 2002/ Accepted 22 July 2002

A new strain of Ibaraki virus (IBAV) was isolated from cattle showing atypical symptoms of Ibaraki disease. The isolate was genetically characterized, and the genetic diversity and evolution of the capsid proteins of viruses in the epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) serogroup were investigated. The nucleotide sequences of the isolate's viral RNA segments 2, 3, 6, and 7, which encode the viral structural proteins VP2, VP3, VP5, and VP7, respectively, were determined and were then compared against those of the existing strains of IBAV and EHDV, to which IBAV belongs serologically. The nucleotide sequences of segments 3 and 7 were conserved within the EHDV serogroup, particularly well among the strains of IBAV and Australian EHDV. The similarity of the sequence of segment 6 of the isolate to sequences of corresponding segments of the other strains of IBAV and EHDV was found to be about 93%. The similarity of segment 2 of the isolate to segments 2 of the other strains of IBAV and EHDV was less than 70%. Phylogenetic analysis based on the deduced amino acid sequences of segments 3 and 7 revealed that the viruses differed according to their geographical distributions. However, the new isolate of IBAV was categorized as having a distinct lineage in the phylogenetic tree of VP2. These results suggest that the isolate was modified by a reassortment of segment 2 and that it exhibits unique genetic and antigenic characteristics.

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