Human Infection with Novel Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia Genotype, China, 2015
Hao Li
1, Xiao-Ming Cui
1, Ning Cui, Zhen-Dong Yang, Jian-Gong Hu, Ya-Di Fan, Xue-Juan Fan, Lan Zhang, Pan-He Zhang, Wu-Chun Cao
, and Li-Qun Fang
Author affiliations: State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China (H. Li, X.-M. Cui, J.-G. Hu, Y.-D. Fan, P.-H. Zhang, W. Liu, W.-C. Cao); The People's Army 154 Hospital, Xinyang, China (N. Cui, Z.-D. Yang, X.-J. Fan, L. Zhang)
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Figure 1
Figure 1. Phylogenetic analyses based on nucleotide sequences of the outer member protein A (307-bp) (A) and citrate synthase (1,150-bp) (B) genes of Rickettsia. Boldface indicates the newly discovered Rickettsia genotype (Rickettsia sp. XY99). Asterisks after taxon names indicate that the sequence of Rickettsia species was found in China. Neighbor-joining trees were conducted by using the maximum composite likelihood method by means of MEGA version 5.0 (http://www.megasoftware.net). Bootstrap analysis of 1,000 replicates was applied to assess the reliability of the reconstructed phylogenies. Scale bars indicate estimated evolutionary distance.
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