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Table 2 Nucleotide and amino acid sequence identities between NG/17–0500 and reference HEV strains within the family Hepeviridaea

From: A new hepatitis E virus genotype 2 strain identified from an outbreak in Nigeria, 2017

Hepeviridae

Degree of identity (%)

Complete genome

ORF1

ORF2

ORF3

ntb

nt

aa

nt

aa

nt

aa

HEV-1

75.0

72.3

83.5

81.0

94.8

90.9

87.8

HEV-2

83.5

82.3

92.7

86.8

98.2

94.1

91.1

HEV-3

73.1

71.2

81.5

78.7

91.2

83.9

76.4

HEV-4

73.5

71.1

80.6

80.7

91.1

80.6

78.9

HEV-5

72.6

70.1

80.1

78.6

89.1

75.0

74.1

HEV-6

72.8

70.9

79.4

78.0

88.5

75.5

70.5

HEV-7

72.3

69.8

80.6

78.8

89.8

79.0

79.8

HEV-8

72.2

70.0

79.9

77.9

89.4

78.5

81.6

Avian HEV

46.3

44.9

41.3

46.2

43.3

25.6

21.1

Rat HEV

52.1

50.1

48.0

55.1

54.8

38.1

27.1

Bat HEV

47.2

45.8

41.6

55.1

48.1

30.6

15.9

  1. aThe sequences were aligned using MAFFT software version 7.222. The evolutionary analyses were conducted using MEGA 7 software version 7.0.26. The GenBank accession numbers are for HEV-1 (M73218), HEV-2 (KX578717), HEV-3 (AF082843), HEV-4 (AJ272108), HEV-5 (AB573435), HEV-6 (AB602441), HEV-7 (KJ496143), HEV-8 (KX387865), Avian HEV (AY535004), Rat HEV (GU345042), and Bat HEV (JQ001749)
  2. bnt and aa represent nucleotide and amino acid, respectively