Figure 2.

Phylogenetic relationship of contemporary strains of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) and TBEV-UK Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, 2019

The box highlights the ticks collected in Hampshire in 2019. The tree was constructed with a maximum-likelihood analysis of full length genomes and is rooted with the tick-borne Powassan virus. European TBEV strains are highlighted in blue, Siberian TBEV in green, Far Eastern TBEV in pink, and Louping ill virus in yellow. Strains are identified with the name, GenBank accession numbers, country location and host.