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Volume 18, Number 2—February 2012
Dispatch

Phylogeography of Francisella tularensis subsp. holarctica, Europe

Miklós Gyuranecz1, Dawn N. Birdsell1, Wolf Splettstoesser, Erik Seibold, Stephen M. Beckstrom-Sternberg, László Makrai, László Fodor, Massimo Fabbi, Nadia Vicari, Anders Johansson, Joseph D. Busch, Amy J. Vogler, Paul Keim, and David M. WagnerComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary (M. Gyuranecz); Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA (D.N. Birdsell, J.D. Busch, A.J. Vogler, P. Keim, D.M. Wagner); Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany (W. Splettstoesser, E. Seibold); Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, USA (S.M. Beckstrom-Sternberg, P. Keim); Szent István University, Budapest (L. Makrai, L. Fodor); Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombradia e dell’Emilia Romagna, Pavia, Italy (M. Fabbi, N. Vicari); Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden (A. Johansson)

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Table A1

Isolates in study of the phylogeography of Francisella tularensis subsp. holarctica, Europe*

ID no.† Original ID no.‡ Originating laboratory Country of origin Source§ Year Subclade from (5)¶# Subclade from (8)¶ ** Subclade from this study¶
F0586 AF19 BIM Austria Lepus europaeus 1997 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0587 AF9 BIM Austria L. europaeus 1996 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0589 AF6 BIM Austria L. europaeus 1994 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0590 AF5 BIM Austria L. europaeus 1997 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0591 AF3 BIM Austria L. europaeus 1997 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0599 AF22 BIM Austria L. europaeus 1997 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0595 AF54 BIM Austria L. europaeus 1994 13/14 20/21 34/35
F0597 AF36 BIM Austria Human 1997 13/14 20/21 34/35
F0588 AF8 BIM Austria L. europaeus 1995 13/14 20/21 36/37
F0614 DF161 BIM Germany Human 2007 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0616 DF159 BIM Germany L. europaeus 2007 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0620 DF155 BIM Germany Human 2007 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0626 DF163 BIM Germany Human 2007 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0627 DF162 BIM Germany Human 2007 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0634 DF170 BIM Germany L. europaeus 2007 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0639 DF193 BIM Germany L. europaeus 2008 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0640 DF194 BIM Germany L. europaeus 2008 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0641 DF195 BIM Germany L. europaeus 2008 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0642 DF196 BIM Germany L. europaeus 2008 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0643 DF197 BIM Germany L. europaeus 2008 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0601 DF101 BIM Germany Macaca fascicularis 2002 13/14 20/21 34/35
F0603 DF99 BIM Germany M. mulatta 2005 13/14 20/21 34/35
F0611 DF107 BIM Germany M. fascicularis 2005 13/14 20/21 34/35
F0617 DF158 BIM Germany L. europaeus 2007 13/14 20/21 34/35
F0621 DF169 BIM Germany L. europaeus 2007 13/14 20/21 34/35
F0625 DF164 BIM Germany L. europaeus 2007 13/14 20/21 34/35
F0704 T1 SZIU Hungary L. europaeus 2007 13/14 23/14/25 23/14/25
F0713 T17 SZIU Hungary L. europaeus 2008 13/14 20/21 20/21/33
F0714 T19 SZIU Hungary L. europaeus 2008 13/14 20/21 20/21/33
F0702 TM1 SZIU Hungary Chlorocebus aethiops 2003 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0703 TM2 SZIU Hungary Erythrocebus patas 2003 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0705 T3 SZIU Hungary L. europaeus 2007 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0706 T4 SZIU Hungary L. europaeus 2007 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0707 T6 SZIU Hungary L. europaeus 2007 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0709 T11 SZIU Hungary L. europaeus 2007 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0710 T12 SZIU Hungary L. europaeus 2007 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0711 T13 SZIU Hungary L. europaeus 2007 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0712 T14 SZIU Hungary L. europaeus 2008 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0716 T22 SZIU Hungary L. europaeus 2008 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0715 T21 SZIU Hungary L. europaeus 2008 13/14 20/21 34/35
F0708 T7 SZIU Hungary L. europaeus 2007 13/14 20/21 TUL07/2007
F0732 42055/2008 IZSLER Italy Natural spring water 2008 FTNF002–00 FTNF002–00 FTNF002–00
F0733 21851/2006 IZSLER Italy L. europaeus 2006 FTNF002–00 FTNF002–00 FTNF002–00
F0734 5768/2001 IZSLER Italy Human 2001 FTNF002–00 FTNF002–00 FTNF002–00
F0731 8660/1995 IZSLER Romania/ Italy L. europaeus 1995 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0433 Fr014 AFSSA Central Europe†† L. europaeus UNK 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0459 Fr040 AFSSA Central Europe L. europaeus UNK 13/14 20/21 37/38
F0188 FSC 181 SDRA Czech Republic Dermacentor reticulatus 1995 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0190 FSC 183 SDRA Czech Republic D. reticulatus 1995 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0191 FSC 184 SDRA Czech Republic D. reticulatus 1995 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0193 FSC 186 SDRA Czech Republic D. reticulatus 1995 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0194 FSC 187 SDRA Czech Republic Ixodes ricinus 1995 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0187 FSC 180 SDRA Czech Republic D. reticulatus 1995 13/14 20/21 34/35
F0189 FSC 182 SDRA Czech Republic D. reticulatus 1995 13/14 20/21 34/35
F0192 FSC 185 SDRA Czech Republic D. reticulatus 1995 13/14 20/21 34/35
F0035 FSC 080 SDRA Finland L. europaeus 1984 13/14 20/21 20/21/33
F0163 FSC 249 SDRA Finland Human 1995 13/14 20/21 20/21/33
F0025 FSC 121 SDRA Russia Water 1985 13/14 20/21 20/21/33
F0026 FSC 123 SDRA Russia Water 1983 13/14 20/21 20/21/33
F0030 FSC 151 SDRA Russia Water 1988 13/14 20/21 20/21/33
F0034 FSC 077 SDRA Sweden L. europaeus 1981 13/14 20/21 20/21/33
F0040 FSC 188 SDRA Sweden Human 1996 13/14 20/21 20/21/33
F0093 FSC 102 SDRA Sweden Human 1981 13/14 20/21 20/21/33
F0227 FSC 273 SDRA Sweden Human 2000 13/14 20/21 20/21/33
F0302 FSC 175 SDRA Sweden Human 1995 13/14 20/21 20/21/33
F0036 FSC 081 SDRA Sweden L. europaeus 1985 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0226 FSC 272 SDRA Sweden Human 2000 13/14 20/21 33/34
F0209 FSC 248 SDRA Sweden Human 2000 13/14 20/21 35/36

*ID, identification; BIM, Institut für Mikrobiologie der Bundeswehr; SZIU, Szent István University; IZSLER, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia Romagna; AFSSA, Agence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire des Aliments and Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches en Pathologie Animale et Zoonoses; UNK, unknown; SDRA, Swedish Defense Research Agency.
†Isolate ID in the Northern Arizona University DNA collection.
‡Isolate ID from the originating laboratory.
§Lepus europaeus, European brown hare; Macaca fascicularis, long-tailed macaque; M. mulatta, rhesus monkey; Chlorocebus aethiops, vervet monkey; Erythrocebus patas, patas monkey; Ixodes ricinus, castor bean tick (sheep tick); Dermacentor reticulatus, marsh tick.
¶In the interest of space, subclade names have been truncated to remove the preceding B.Br. nomenclature because all of these subclades belong in the B clade of F. tularensis.
#Canonical single nucleotide polymorphism (canSNP) subclade originally defined in (5) and modified as described in the text.
**CanSNP subclade defined in (8). These names have been modified to conform to the nomenclature standard originally established by (5) and modified as described in the text.
††Country unknown.

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