Table 2. Nucleotide and amino acid p-distances of 2 arenaviruses in blood of Mus minutoides and Lemniscomys rosalia mice in Morogoro, Tanzania, October 13–December 3, 2008, compared with Old World and 2 New World arenaviruses*.

Virus sequence†	Old World arenaviruses												New World arenaviruses
	Dandedong	Ippy	Kodoko	Mobala	Mopeia	Morogoro	Lassa	LCMV	Lujo	Lemn	Minu		Pirital	Pichinde
Dandedong		0.282	0.073	0.218	0.255	0.282	0.209	0.027	0.355	0.245	0.091		0.418	0.409
Ippy	0.345		0.264	0.227	0.209	0.209	0.191	0.300	0.345	0.173	0.273		0.491	0.482
Kodoko	0.244	0.354		0.200	0.227	0.255	0.227	0.091	0.336	0.236	0.073		0.409	0.409
Mobala	0.318	0.315	0.315		0.136	0.127	0.145	0.227	0.327	0.209	0.236		0.482	0.464
Mopeia	0.310	0.295	0.351	0.256		0.055	0.145	0.273	0.345	0.182	0.255		0.482	0.464
Morogoro	0.327	0.324	0.360	0.262	0.241		0.136	0.282	0.364	0.209	0.282		0.491	0.473
Lassa	0.286	0.283	0.366	0.286	0.271	0.262		0.209	0.364	0.200	0.236		0.473	0.436
LCMV	0.182	0.354	0.223	0.339	0.324	0.345	0.330		0.373	0.264	0.109		0.436	0.409
Lujo	0.351	0.393	0.360	0.372	0.387	0.405	0.399	0.357		0.373	0.336		0.500	0.500
Lemn	0.333	0.315	0.336	0.292	0.313	0.307	0.301	0.327	0.351		0.227		0.482	0.464
Minu	0.211	0.360	0.241	0.301	0.348	0.348	0.339	0.244	0.354	0.324			0.436	0.409
Pirital	0.440	0.467	0.429	0.420	0.452	0.443	0.455	0.432	0.476	0.473	0.417			0.173
Pichinde	0.426	0.446	0.432	0.458	0.476	0.467	0.473	0.452	0.446	0.443	0.435		0.268

*Nucleotides below diagonal; amino acids above diagonal. LCMV, lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus; Lemn, virus sequenced from Lemniscomys rosalia mice (indicated by boldface); Minu, virus sequenced from Mus minutoides mice (indicated by boldface).
†Strains and GenBank accession numbers of the sequences used: Dandenong (0710-2678, EU136039), Ippy (Dak An B 188 d, DQ328878), Kodoko (KD42, EF179865), Mobala (Acar 3080, DQ328876), Mopeia (Mozambique, DQ328875), Morogoro (3017/2004, EU914104), Lassa (Josiah, AY628202), LCMV (Armstrong,,AY847351), Lujo (NC_012777), Pirital (VAV 488, AY216505), Pichinde (AN3739, NC_006439). Sequences of arenaviruses in L. rosalia and M. minutoides mice have been deposited in GenBank under accession nos. GU182412 and GU182413, respectively.