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. 2020 May 11;43(2):e20190240. doi: 10.1590/1678-4685-GMB-2019-0240

Table 1. Summary of RVFV sequence characteristics.

Country L segment M segment S (NP) segment S (NS) segment
Kenya 10 2 14 14
Sudan 4 5 13 13
Central Africa Republic 2 7 8 7
Madagascar 6 6 6 6
Egypt 3 4 6 6
Angola 1 1 1 1
Saudi Arabia 1 2 2 1
China 3 3 3 3
Total 30 30 53 51

L segment: the large (approximately 6.4 kb) genomic segment encoding RNA polymerase, M segment: the medium (approximately 3.2 kb) genomic segment encoding glycoprotein, S segment: the small (approximately 1.7 kb) genomic segment encoding nucleoprotein (NP) and nonstructural protein (NS).