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Volume 26, Number 8—August 2020
Dispatch

Autochthonous Gnathostomiasis in Madagascar

Annie Raharisoa1, Arezki Izri1, Romain Lovanirina Andrianjafy, Ranto Andriantsilavina Rajaona, Anthony Marteau, Remy Durand, and Mohammad AkhoundiComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Avicenne Hospital, Bobigny, France (A. Raharisoa, A. Izri, A. Marteau, R. Durand, M. Akhoundi); Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Joseph Ravoahangy Andrianavalona, Antananarivo, Madagascar (A. Raharisoa, R.L. Andrianjafy, R.A. Rajaona); IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France (A. Izri); Université Paris-Saclay, Châtenay-Malabry, France (R. Durand)

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Figure 2

Neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree of Gnathostoma spinigerum isolated from a woman in Madagascar, 2016 (red box), and reference sequences from GenBank. The tree was constructed using MEGA (8) with bootstrap values determined by 1,000 replicates and compares the cytochrome oxidase I gene sequences.

Figure 2. Neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree of Gnathostoma spinigerum isolated from a woman in Madagascar, 2016 (red box), and reference sequences from GenBank. The tree was constructed using MEGA (8) with bootstrap values determined by 1,000 replicates and compares the cytochrome oxidase I gene sequences.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

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