Bayesian Skyline Plots for Demographic Reconstruction using NS5B sequences.

<p>A) subtype 2c, B) subtype 2k; X-axis: Date in Years; Y-axis: Estimated effective number of infections; Bold Line: Mean Effective Number of viral population. Upper and lower Lines: Upper and Lower HPD95% (High Population Density) of Effective Number of viral population.</p

The timeline of HCV subtype 2c introduction in Tunisia.

<p>The timeline of HCV subtype 2c introduction in Tunisia.</p

Phylogenetic analysis of isolates from Subtype 2k.

<p>Phylogenetic analyses were performed using the Maximum Composite Likelihood method included in the MEGA package (version 5.1). The reliability of the phylogenetic constructions was estimated by bootstrap analysis with 1000 pseudo replicate data sets. The tree is based on the analysis of a 222-nucleotide long fragment in the NS5B region (nucleotides 8346 to 8568 according to the H77-1a prototype strain, AF009606). It includes the 11 studied Tunisian sequences (in red) and 39 HCV-2k field sequences from other countries (in black). All the sequences were indicated by their Accession Numbers followed by the country code and the collection date. The country codes according to the standard abbreviation are: France (FRA), Martinique (MTQ), Canada (CAN), Russia (RUS), United Kingdom (GBR), Uzbekistan (UZB), Azerbaijan (AZE), Morocco (MAR), Iran (IRN) and Moldova (MDA).</p

_tMRCA estimations using the NS5B region for the HCV- 2c and HCV-2k in Tunisia.

<p>_tMRCA estimations using the NS5B region for the HCV- 2c and HCV-2k in Tunisia.</p

Phylogenetic analysis of isolates from subtype 2c.

<p>Phylogenetic analyses were performed using the Maximum Composite Likelihood method included in the MEGA package (version 5.1). The reliability of the phylogenetic constructions was estimated by bootstrap analysis with 1000 pseudo replicate data sets. The tree is based on the analysis of a 222-nucleotide-long fragment in the NS5B region (nucleotides 8316 to 8537 according to the H77-1a prototype strain, AF009606). It includes the 102 studied Tunisian sequences (in red) and 53 HCV-2c field sequences from other countries (in black). All the sequences were indicated by their Accession Numbers followed by the country code and the collection date. The country codes according to the standard abbreviation are: France (FRA), Martinique (MTQ), Canada (CAN), Italy (ITA), Venezuela (VEN), Ghana (GHA), Russia (RUS), Netherlands (NLD), Spain (ESP), Japan (JPN), Germany (DEU), Argentina (ARG) and United Kingdom (GBR).</p