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Volume 27, Number 4—April 2021
Research

Epidemiologic and Genomic Reidentification of Yaws, Liberia

Joseph W.S. TimothyComments to Author , Mathew A. Beale, Emerson Rogers, Zeela Zaizay, Katherine E. Halliday, Tarnue Mulbah, Romeo K. Giddings, Stephen L. Walker, Nicholas R. Thomson, Karsor K. Kollie1, Rachel L. Pullan1, and Michael Marks1
Author affiliations: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK (J.W.S. Timothy, K.E. Halliday, S.L. Walker, N.R. Thomson, R.L. Pullan, M. Marks); Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK (M.A. Beale, N.R. Thomson); Ministry of Health, Monrovia, Liberia (E. Rogers, Z. Zaizay, T. Mulbah, R.K. Giddings, K.K. Kollie); University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London (S.L. Walker, M. Marks)

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Figure 4

Global context of whole Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue (TPE) genomes from Liberia. Liberia genomes form a monophyletic clade, genetically distant from publicly available genomes including 3 isolated from nonhuman primates in nearby Taï National Park (Côte d’Ivoire). Plot shows a maximum-likelihood phylogeny of 12 Liberia genomes contextualized with 34 published global genomes, scaled by substitutions per site. Ultra-fast bootstrap values >95% are indicated on the tree. Colored tracks show country of sampling and original host organism. Novel Liberia genomes from this study are indicated with blue labels.

Figure 4. Global context of whole Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue (TPE) genomes from Liberia. Liberia genomes form a monophyletic clade, genetically distant from publicly available genomes including 3 isolated from nonhuman primates in nearby Taï National Park (Côte d’Ivoire). Plot shows a maximum-likelihood phylogeny of 12 Liberia genomes contextualized with 34 published global genomes, scaled by substitutions per site. Ultra-fast bootstrap values >95% are indicated on the tree. Colored tracks show country of sampling and original host organism. Novel Liberia genomes from this study are indicated with blue labels.

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1These senior authors contributed equally to this article.

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