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Volume 25, Number 2—February 2019
Research

Epidemiologic and Ecologic Investigations of Monkeypox, Likouala Department, Republic of the Congo, 2017

Reena H. DoshiComments to Author , Sarah Anne J. Guagliardo, Jeffrey B. Doty, Angelie Dzabatou Babeaux, Audrey Matheny, Jillybeth Burgado, Michael B. Townsend, Clint N. Morgan, Panayampalli Subbian Satheshkumar, Nestor Ndakala, Therese Kanjingankolo, Lambert Kitembo, Jean Malekani, Lem’s Kalemba, Elisabeth Pukuta, Tobi N’kaya, Fabien Kangoula, Cynthia Moses, Andrea M. McCollum, Mary G. Reynolds, Jean-Vivien Mombouli, Yoshinori Nakazawa, and Brett W. Petersen
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (R.H. Doshi, S.A.J. Guagliardo, J.B. Doty, A. Matheny, J. Burgado, M.B. Townsend, C.N. Morgan, P.S. Satheshkumar, A.M. McCollum, M.G. Reynolds, Y. Nakazawa, B.W. Petersen); Ministry of Health, Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of the Congo (A.D. Babeaux, L. Kitembo, F. Kangoula, J.-V. Mombouli); Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Fellowship Program, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA (A. Matheny, J. Burgado, C.N. Morgan); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (N. Ndakala, T. Kanjingankolo, J.-V. Mombouli); University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa (J. Malekani, L. Kalemba); Institut Nationale de Recherche Biomedicale, Kinshasa (E. Pukuta); Ministere de l’Agriculture, de l’Elevage et de la Peche, Brazzaville (T. N’kaya); International Communication and Education Fund, Kinshasa (C. Moses)

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Figure 3

Bayesian majority rules consensus tree comparing sequences obtained from Cricetomys specimens collected in Likouala Department, Republic of the Congo, 2017 (boldface), with sequences from Olayemi et al. (31). Vertical black bars distinguish clades representing Cricetomys giant pouched rat species proposed by Olayemi et al. Tree was constructed on the basis of 2 independent runs, 5 million generations each, based on a 409-bp long fragment of the cytochrome B gene. Bayesian posterior probabilities

Figure 3. Bayesian majority rules consensus tree comparing sequences obtained from Cricetomys specimens collected in Likouala Department, Republic of the Congo, 2017 (boldface), with sequences from Olayemi et al. (31). Vertical black bars distinguish clades representing Cricetomys giant pouched rat species proposed by Olayemi et al. Tree was constructed on the basis of 2 independent runs, 5 million generations each, based on a 409-bp fragment of the cytochrome B gene. Bayesian posterior probabilities for each node are shown. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.

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