Japanese Spotted Fever in Eastern China, 2013
Jiabin Li
1, Wen Hu
1, Ting Wu, Hong-Bin Li, Wanfu Hu, Yong Sun, Zhen Chen, Yonglin Shi, Jia Zong, Adams Latif, Linding Wang, Li Yu, Xue-Jie Yu, Yan Liu
, and Bo-Yu Liu
Author affiliations: The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China (J. Li, T. Wu, H.-B. Li); The First Affiliated Hospital of the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (Wen Hu); Anhui Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hefei (Wanfu Hu, Y. Sun, Y. Shi); Anhui Medical University, Hefei (Z. Chen, J. Zong, A. Latif, L. Wang, L. Yu, B.-Y. Liu, Y. Liu); Wuhan University School of Health Sciences, Wuhan, China (X.-J. Yu)
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Figure. Phylogenetic analysis of Rickettsia isolate from patient with Japanese spotted fever in Anhui Province and isolate from Haemaphysalis longicornis tick in Shandong Province, China, 2013 (black dots), compared with reference isolates. Unrooted neighbor-joining trees of 16S rRNA gene (A) and 17-kDa protein gene (B) were constructed by using MEGA 5.2 (https://www.megasoftware.net/) and 1,000 bootstrap replications. Scale bar represents substitutions per nucleotide.
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