Table 2. Sequences of West Nile virus (WNV) strains and other members of the Japanese encephalitis virus group used for phylogenetic analyses.

Virus name	Code	Accession no.*	Isolation
			Year	Host	Geographic origin	WNV lineage, clade
WNV HNY1999	NY99a	AF202541	1999	Human	New York	1a
WNV NY99flamingo38299	NY99b	AF196835	1999	Flamingo	New York	1a
WNV IS98STD	Is98	AF481864	1998	Stork	Israel	1a
WNV Italy1998Equine	It98	AF404757	1998	Horse	Italy	1a
WNV RO9750	Ro96	AF260969	1996	Culex pipiens	Romania	1a
WNV VLG4	Rus99a	AF317203	1999	Human	Volgograd	1a
WNV LEIV-Vlg99-27889	Rus99b	AY277252	1999	Human	Volgograd	1a
WNV PaH001	Tu97	AY268133	1997	Human	Tunisia	1a
WNV PaAn001	Fr00	AY268132	2000	Horse	France	1a
WNV Eg101	Eg51	AF260968	1951	Human	Egypt	1a
WNV Chin-01	Chin01	AY490240	Unknown	Unknown†	China	1a
WNV Kunjin MRM61C	Kunjin	D00246	1960	Cx. annulirostris	Australia	1b
WNV Sarafend	Sarafend	AY688948		Laboratory strain		2
WNV B956 (WNFCG)	Ug37	M12294	1937	Human	Uganda	2
WNV LEIV-Krnd88-190	Rus98	AY277251	1998	Dermacentor marginatus	Caucasus	4†
Rabensburg virus (97-103)	RabV	AY765264	1997	Cx. pipiens	Czech Republic	3†
Japanese encephalitis virus	JEV	NC_001437	–	–	–	–
Murray Valley encephalitis virus	MVEV	NC_000943	–	–	–	–
Usutu virus	USUV	AY453411	–	–	–	–
Saint Louis encephalitis virus	SLEV	AF013416	–	–	–	–
Alfuy virus	ALFV	AF013360	–	–	–	–
Cacipacore virus	CPCV	AF013367	–	–	–	–
Koutango virus	KOUV	AF013384	–	–	–	–
Yaounde virus	YAOV	AF013413	–	–	–	–

*Partial nucleotide sequences (NS5 protein region) are indicated in italics.
†, tentative speciation.