Volume 9, Number 12, December 2003

Global Distribution of Rubella Virus Genotypes

Du-Ping Zheng,* Teryl K. Frey,* Joseph Icenogle,† Shigetaka Katow,†‡ Emily S. Abernathy,*† Ki-Joon Song,§ Wen-Bo Xu,¶ Vitaly Yarulin,# R.G. Desjatskova,# Yair Aboudy,** Gisela Enders,†† and Margaret Croxson,‡‡
*Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ‡National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan; §Korea University, Seoul, Korea; ¶Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China; #Institute of Viral Preparations, Moscow, Russia; **Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel; ††Institute for Virology, Infectiology and Epidemiology, Stuttgart, Germany; and ‡‡Auckland Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand

Figure 3. Histogram of genetic distances between rubella virus sequences. The histogram, showing the distribution of all of the pairwise distances between the rubella virus sequences in the study, was constructed from the maximum likelihood distance matrix computed by Tree Puzzle 5.0 program.

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