Research Article

Genetic Characterization of Infectious Bursal Disease Viruses Associated with Gumboro Outbreaks in Commercial Broilers from Asyut Province, Egypt

Table 1

Nucleotide similarity (%) of the HVRs of VP2 of the examined strains with reference vvIBDV strains (OKYM (Japan), HK46 (Hong Kong), and UK661 (European).

Percent identity
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Divergence
1 *98.995.997.298.197.898.099.398.698.711
21.1*96.798.298.698.499.199.199.099.322
34.33.4*95.996.295.796.296.696.797.033
42.91.94.2*97.698.397.497.997.898.444
52.01.43.92.4*97.797.998.998.298.655
62.21.64.41.72.3*97.998.198.098.666
72.00.94.02.62.12.2*98.598.598.577
80.70.93.52.11.11.91.5*99.098.98OKYM-D49706
91.51.03.42.21.82.01.51.0*98.99Vv-HK46, AF051838
101.30.73.11.71.41.41.51.11.1*10Vv-UK661, X92760
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NB, it is mean the percent of identity is 100 or zero percent divergence between isolates.