Volume 12, Number 7—July 2006

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Leptospirosis in Squirrels Imported from United States to Japan

Toshiyuki Masuzawa* , Yoshihiro Okamoto*, Yumi Une†, Takahiro Takeuchi‡, Keiko Tsukagoshi‡, Nobuo Koizumi§, Hiroki Kawabata§, Shuji Ohta¶, and Yasuhiro Yoshikawa#

Author affiliations: *Chiba Institute of Science, Choshi, Japan; †Azabu University, Sagamihara, Japan; ‡Shizuoka Saisei-kai General Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan; §National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan; ¶Tokyo Quarantine Station, Kawasaki, Japan; #The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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Figure 1. Phylogenetic tree based on the Leptospira DNA gyrase B subunit gene (gyrB) sequence. The sequences obtained have been deposited in DDBJ/GenBank/EMBL with accession numbers indicated.

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