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Volume 26, Number 10—October 2020
Research Letter

Streptococcus equi Subspecies zooepidemicus and Sudden Deaths in Swine, Canada

Matheus de O. CostaComments to Author  and Brad Lage
Author affiliations: University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA (M.O. Costa); University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada (M.O. Costa); Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands (M.O. Costa); Maple Leaf Agri-Farms, Landmark, Manitoba, Canada (B. Lage)

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Phylogenetic tree (all-shared proteins) of Streptococcus equi subspecies zooepidemicus whole-genome sequences obtained from outbreak in pigs from Canada (blue blocks, PRJNA578379), compared with previously characterized genome sequences from GenBank (n = 28). Tree inferred using BLAST (https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov), followed by FastTree within the PATRIC package (5). Support values shown indicate the number of times a particular branch was observed in the support trees using gene-wise jackknif

Figure. Phylogenetic tree (all-shared proteins) of Streptococcus equi subspecies zooepidemicus whole-genome sequences obtained from outbreak in pigs from Canada (blue blocks, PRJNA578379), compared with previously characterized genome sequences from GenBank (n = 28). Tree inferred using BLAST (https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov), followed by FastTree within the PATRIC package (5). Support values shown indicate the number of times a particular branch was observed in the support trees using gene-wise jackknifing. Shaded colors reflect similar host taxonomy associated with a branch (>3 isolates).

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