Rare Human Infection with Pacific Broad Tapeworm Adenocephalus pacificus, Australia
Casey V. Moore, R.C. Andrew Thompson, Abdul Jabbar, John V. Williams, Kavita Rasiah, Louise Pallant, Ann P. Koehler, Caitlin Graham, and Gerhard F. Weldhagen
Author affiliations: SA Pathology, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia (C.V. Moore, G.F. Weldhagen); Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia (R.C.A. Thompson, L. Pallant); University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (A. Jabbar); Investigator Clinic, Port Lincoln, South Australia (J. Williams); Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide (K. Rasiah); SA Health Communicable Disease Control Branch, Adelaide (A.P. Koehler, C. Graham)
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Figure. Phylogenetic relationship of genetic sequences from an Adenocephalus pacificus tapeworm obtained from a human in Australia (bold) and selected reference sequences. The relationship was inferred on the basis of DNA sequence analyses of cytochrome c oxidase 1 (A), small subunit RNA (B), and internal transcribed spacer (C) regions, using Bayesian inference and neighbor-joining phylogenetic methods. Topologies of trees generated by both methods were similar; thus, only neighbor-joining trees are shown here. Spirometra spp. were used as the outgroup. Nodal support is shown as posterior probability value (first) and bootstrap value (second) on the basis of 2 million generations for Bayesian inference and 10,000 replicates for neighbor joining, respectively. GenBank accession numbers are shown in parentheses. Scale bars indicate nucleotide substitutions per site.
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