Volume 9, Number 6, June 2003

Rift Valley Fever Virus Infection among French Troops in Chad

Jean Paul Durand,* Michèle Bouloy,† Laurent Richecoeur,‡ Christophe Nicolas Peyrefitte,* and Hugues Tolou*
*Tropical Medicine Institute of the French Army Medical Corps (IMTSSA), Marseille, France; †Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; and ‡3ème Régiment d’Infanterie de Marine (RIMa), Vannes Cedex, France

Figure. NSs-based phylogenetic tree of Rift Valley fever virus strains. Values indicate the bootstrap support of the nodes. Strains isolated in Chad are designated H1CHA01 and H2CHA01, according to the previous abbreviation guidelines (7,8). EMBL accession nos. AJ504997 and AJ504998. SNS, Smithburn strain. Branch lengths are proportional to the number of substitutions per site.

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