Volume 20, Number 6—June 2014
Research
Bats as Reservoir Hosts of Human Bacterial Pathogen, Bartonella mayotimonensis
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Figure 3. Phylogenetic analysis of bat-colonizing Bartonella sppfound worldwide demonstrates a distinct Bmayotimonensis cluster in the Northern HemisphereMaximum composite likelihood–based neighbor-joining tree is based on the alignment of the gltA multilocus sequence analysis markerInformation from Bartonella gltA sequences from bat blood isolates or from minced tissues of bats or from bat ectoparasites was included in the analysisGenBank accession numbers of the sequences are shown after the country of originNumbers on branches indicate bootstrap support values derived from 1,000 tree replicasBootstrap values >60 are shownScale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.
1These authors contributed equally to this article.