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. 2022 Feb;28(2):475-477.
doi: 10.3201/eid2802.204887.

Group IV Getah Virus in Culex Mosquitoes, Malaysia

Sing-Sin Sam, Noor-Adila Mohamed-Romai-Noor, Boon-Teong Teoh, Zur-Raiha Hamim, Hoi-Ying Ng, Juraina Abd-Jamil, Chee-Sieng Khor, Sharifah-Syed Hassan, Hamdan Ahmad, Sazaly AbuBakar

Group IV Getah Virus in Culex Mosquitoes, Malaysia

Sing-Sin Sam et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2022 Feb.

Abstract

A new Getah virus (GETV) strain, B254, was isolated from Culex fuscocephalus mosquitoes captured at Mount Ophir, Malaysia, in 2012. Phylogenetic analyses revealed that GETV B254 is distinct from the old Malaysia GETV MM2021 strain but closely related to group IV GETV from Russia (LEIV16275Mag), China (YN12031), and Thailand (GETV/SW/Thailand/2017).

Keywords: Getah virus; Malaysia; alphavirus; arbovirus; emerging; evolution; infectious diseases; mosquitoes; tropical; vector-borne infections; viruses.

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Maximum-clade credibility tree of complete coding sequences of Getah virus (GETV) strain B254 from Malaysia (black dot) and reference strains. Horizontal branches are drawn to a scale of estimated year of divergence. Times to the most recent common ancestor with 95% highest posterior density values (ranges in parentheses) are shown at nodes. Posterior probability values >0.6 of key nodes are shown. G, group.
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