Zoonotic Onchocerca lupi Infection in Dogs, Greece and Portugal, 2011–2012
Domenico Otranto
, Filipe Dantas-Torres, Alessio Giannelli, Maria Stefania Latrofa, Elias Papadopoulos, Luís Cardoso, and Helder Cortes
Author affiliations: Università degli Studi di Bari, Valenzano, Italy (D. Otranto, F. Dantas-Torres, A. Giannelli, M.S. Latrofa); Aggeu Magalhães Research Institute, Recife, Brazil (F. Dantas-Torres); Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece (E. Papadopoulos); University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal (L. Cardoso); Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, Oporto, Portugal (L. Cardoso); University of Évora, Evora, Portugal (H. Cortes)
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Figure 2. . Phylogeny of Onchocerca lupi and other filarial nematodes based on cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 gene sequences. Thelazia callipaeda was used as outgroup. Bootstrap confidence limits (8,000 replicates). GenBank accession numbers and number of haplotype sequences (in parenthesis) are reported along with their geographic origin. Scale bar indicates genetic differences.
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