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Volume 22, Number 8—August 2016
Synopsis

Co-infections in Visceral Pentastomiasis, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Dennis TappeComments to Author , Mihály Sulyok, Therese Riu, Lajos Rózsa, Imre Bodó, Christoph Schoen, Birgit Muntau, Gergely Babocsay, and Richard Hardi
Author affiliations: Bernhard Nocht Institute, Hamburg, Germany (D. Tappe, B. Muntau); Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany (M. Sulyok); Hôpital Géneral de Reference de Kole, Kole, Democratic Republic of the Congo (T. Riu); MTA-ELTE-MTM Ecology Research Group, Budapest, Hungary (L. Rózsa); Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (I. Bodó); University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany (C. Schoen); Mátra Museum of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Gyöngyös, Hungary (G. Babocsay); St. Raphael Ophthalmological Center, Mbuji Mayi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (R. Hardi)

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Figure 4

Molecular phylogenetic analysis of Armillifer spp. sequences obtained from humans and snakes in Sankuru District, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2014–2015. Parasite cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene sequences from abdominal (Abd) surgery patient specimens (larval parasites) and from snake meats for sale at local markets (adult parasites) are shown. Human cases are numbered according to the patient and cyst numbers shown in the Table. Sequences obtained from the same patient share the same col

Figure 4. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of Armillifer spp. sequences obtained from humans and snakes in Sankuru District, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2014–2015. Parasite cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene sequences from abdominal (Abd) surgery patient specimens (larval parasites) and from snake meats for sale at local markets (adult parasites) are shown. Human cases are numbered according to the patient and cyst numbers shown in the Table. Sequences obtained from the same patient share the same color. A GenBank reference sequence (A. armillatus AY456186) is included, as are sequences from the human abdominal and eye infections from the same region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo investigated in 2014 (8,12). The evolutionary history was inferred by using the maximum-likelihood method based on the Hasegawa-Kishino-Yano model. The tree with the highest log likelihood (−646.8057) is shown. The percentage of trees in which the associated taxa clustered together is shown next to the branches. Initial tree(s) for the heuristic search were obtained automatically by applying neighbor-joining and BioNJ algorithms to a matrix of pairwise distances estimated using the maximum composite likelihood approach, and then selecting the topology with superior log likelihood value. Codon positions included were 1st+2nd+3rd+Noncoding. A. grandis and A. armillatus sequences form their own respective branches. Scale bar indicates number of substitutions per site.

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