Phylogenetic analysis of European encephalomyocarditis viruses: comparisonof two genomic regions

The phylogenetic relationships of encephalomyocarditis (EMC) viruses isolat ed from pigs and rodents in Europe were determined by comparison of nucleot ide sequences from two different regions of the virus genome, the VP3/VP1 g ene junction (part of the capsid-coding region) and part of the 3D polymera se-coding region. Thirty-five European EMC viruses could be divided into tw o genetic groups, one which contained viruses from Greece isolated between 1986 and 1997 and from Belgium in 1991 and the other which contained viruse s from Italy (1986-1996), Cyprus (1994-1995), France (1995) and Belgium (19 95-1996).