FIGURE 3.

Maximum likelihood phylogeny of Crimean‐Congo haemorrhagic fever virus strains inferred from 34 aligned 434‐nt segments of the L‐segment (RdRp gene). GenBank accession numbers and country of origin are indicated for each sequence. Accession numbers for sequences from this from this study are in bold. Isolation sources in applicable sequences are also highlighted. Bootstrap values at the major nodes are of percentage agreement among 1,000 replicates. The branch length scale represents substitutions per site. The gaps indicated in the branches to the Nairobi sheep disease out‐group represent 0.8 substitutions per site. The sequences from this study fall into African genotype II as indicated by the vertical bars