Description of an Equine Hepacivirus Cluster in a Horse Stable in Italy

Figure 1

Phylogenetic trees based on three conserved genomic regions, (a) 5′UTR, (b) NS3 and (c) NS5B, of equine hepacivirus (EqHV) strains retrieved from the GenBank database and identified in this study. GenBank accession numbers are provided for reference strains. The trees were generated using the maximum likelihood method, general time reversible model with a gamma distribution and invariant sites and bootstrapping up to 1000 replicates. Bootstrap values ≥ 75% are shown. Italian EqHV strains generated in this study are indicated by black arrows. Scale bar indicates nt substitutions per site.

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