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. 2008 Feb;14(2):330-2.
doi: 10.3201/eid1402.070889.

Greek goat encephalitis virus strain isolated from Ixodes ricinus, Greece

Anna Papa  1 , Vasiliki Pavlidou, Antonis Antoniadis
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Greek goat encephalitis virus strain isolated from Ixodes ricinus, Greece

Anna Papa et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2008 Feb.

Abstract

A strain of Greek goat encephaltitis virus was isolated from engorged Ixodes ricinus ticks that had fed on goats in northern Greece. The strain was almost identical to the prototype strain isolated 35 years ago.

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Figure 1
Phylogenetic tree of the envelope gene of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus strains constructed by using PHYLIP software (http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip.html). Omsk hemorrhagic fever (OHF) virus was used as the out-group. The numbers at the nodes represent bootstrap values. LI, louping ill; SSE, Spanish sheep encephalitis; TSE, Turkish sheep encephalitis; GGE, Greek goat encephalitis. Scale bar, 10% nucleotide sequence divergence.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Map of Greece showing location of Vergina and Vavdos villages.
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