Table 4. Homology of nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences of L (partial) gene and complete N gene in Toscana viruses from Spain and the Italian strain ISS Phl.3*.

L gene	STI1	ISS Phl.3	GR40	GR41
nt
ISS Phl.3	0.199
GR40	0.010	0.199
GR41	0.015	0.185	0.026
GR79	0.010	0.205	0.020	0.015
aa
ISS Phl.3	0.015
GR40	0.015	0. 030
GR41	0.000	0.015	0.015
GR79	0.000	0.015	0.015	0.000
N gene	STI1	STI2	ISS Phl.3	STI6	GR40
nt
STI2	0.020
ISS Phl.3	0.116	0.123
STI6	0.005	0.017	0.118
GR40	0.015	0.016	0.123	0.012
GR41	0.020	0.021	0.130	0.017	0.016
aa
STI2	0.000
ISS Phl.3	0.000	0.000
STI6	0.000	0.000	0.000
GR40	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
GR41	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000

*GR40, GR41, and GR79: TOSV obtained from pools of sandflies; STI1, STI2, and STI6: Spanish Toscana virus isolates recovered from patients in previous studies (17); ISS Phl.3: Italian TOSV strain (GenBank accession no. X68414 [L gene] and X53794 [N gene]); nt, nucleotides; aa, amino acids.