Volume 9, Number 11, November 2003

Cowpox with Severe Generalized Eruption, Finland

Paula M. Pelkonen,*† Kyllikki Tarvainen,‡ Arja Hynninen,‡ Eva R.K. Kallio,§ Heikki Henttonen,§ Airi Palva,* Antti Vaheri,†¶ and Olli Vapalahti†¶
*Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Helsinki, Finland; †Haartman Institute, Helsinki, Finland; ‡Central Hospital of North Karelia, Joensuu, Finland; §Finnish Forest Research Institute, Vantaa, Finland; and ¶HUCH Laboratory Diagnostics, Helsinki, Finland

Figure 2. Phylogenetic tree of selected orthopoxvirus hemagglutinin genes based on Clustal X alignment and the maximum likelihood method TreePuzzle. Virus sequences used for the analysis were raccoonpox as an outgroup (GenBank accession no. M94169); cowpoxvirus strains Brighton Red (AF482758), FIN/T2000 (AY366477), GRI-90 (Z99047), Hamburg (Z99050), and Turkmenia (Z99048); vaccinia virus strains IOC (AF229248), Western Reserve (M93956), and Wyeth (Z99051); variola virus strains Bangladesh (L22579), Harvey (X65516) and India (X69198); camelpox virus (AF438165); Cantagalo orthopoxvirus (AF229247); monkeypox virus (Z99049); and rabbitpox virus (Z99049).

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