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Volume 23, Number 8—August 2017
Research Letter

Candidatus Dirofilaria hongkongensis as Causative Agent of Human Ocular Filariosis after Travel to India

Stefan Winkler, Andreas Pollreisz, Michael Georgopoulos, Zsuzsanna Bagò-Horvath, Herbert Auer, Kelvin Kai-Wang To, Jürgen Krücken, Sven Poppert, and Julia WalochnikComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria (S. Winkler, A. Pollreisz, M. Georgopoulos, Z. Bagò-Horvath, H. Auer, J. Walochnik); University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China (K.K-.W. To); Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (J. Krücken); Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany (S. Poppert); Regio Klinikum, Wedel, Germany (S. Poppert)

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Phylogenetic analysis of the genus Dirofilaria based on cytochrome C oxidase subunit I gene sequences from a worm surgically extracted from the eye of a patient who had returned to Austria after travel to India. Bootstrap values and results of the Shimodaira-Hasegawa test are shown before and after the slash. The sequence from the current patient is shown in bold, and clusters within Candidatus Dirofilaria hongkongensis, with Dirofilaria repens as the sister taxon. Two samples, classified as Dir

Figure. Phylogenetic analysis of the genus Dirofilaria based on cytochrome C oxidase subunit I gene sequences from a worm surgically extracted from the eye of a patient who had returned to Austria after travel to India. Bootstrap values and results of the Shimodaira-Hasegawa test are shown before and after the slash. The sequence from the current patient is shown in bold, and clusters within Candidatus Dirofilaria hongkongensis, with Dirofilaria repens as the sister taxon. Two samples, classified as Dirofilaria sp. MK-2010 (GenBank accession no. GU474429) and D. repens from Romania (accession no. KU321603), show very high divergence and probably represent different species. The scale bar represents 0.1 substitutions per site. The samples are identified by GenBank accession numbers, country, and host origin, when available. The genera Dirofilaria (D.) and Onchocerca (O.) as well as the Candidatus status (C.) are abbreviated in species names.

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