The genus Parechovirus is
comprised of two species,
Human
parechovirus and Ljungan virus.
A new virus,
Sebokele virus 1, from rodents may
represent a third species in the genus.
Search for Parechovirus
sequences on GenBank
Genome organisation
Human parechovirus:
VPg+5'UTRIRES-II[1AB-1C-1D/2AH-Box/NC-2B-2C/3A-3BVPg-3Cpro-3Dpol]3'UTR-poly(A)
Ljungan virus:
VPg+5'UTRIRES-II[1AB-1C-1D?2Anpgp/2AH-Box/NC-2B-2C/3A-3BVPg-3Cpro-3Dpol]3'UTR-poly(A)

Fig. 1. Phylogenetic
tree (Neighbor-joining) showing the relationships between the
parechoviruses
(P1 amino acid sequences)
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