Emerging Infectious Diseases (Feb 2022)

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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2802.204887
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 2
pp. 475 – 477

Abstract

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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).

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