Human Monocytic Ehrlichiosis, Mexico City, Mexico
Virginia E. Alcántara-Rodríguez
1, Sokani Sánchez-Montes
1, Hugo Contreras, Pablo Colunga-Salas
1, Lauro Fierro-Flores, Sergio Avalos, Francisco Rodríguez-Rangel, Ingeborg Becker, and David H. Walker
Author affiliations: Secretaría de Salud de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City, Mexico (V.E. Alcántara-Rodríguez, H. Contreras, L. Fierro-Flores, S. Avalos, F. Rodríguez-Rangel); Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz, Mexico (S. Sánchez-Montes); Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City (S. Sánchez-Montes, P. Colunga-Salas, I. Becker); University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA (D.H. Walker)
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Figure. Maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree for Ehrlichia chaffensis from a patient with human monocytic ehrlichiosis, Mexico City, Mexico (blue diamond), and reference sequences. The tree was generated by using concatenated fragments of 16S rRNA and dsb genes in an 850-bp alignment. GenBank accession numbers are indicated in parentheses. Numbers along branches are bootstrap values. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.
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