Mycobacterium microti Infections in Free-Ranging Red Deer (Cervus elaphus)
Giovanni Ghielmetti
, Anne M. Kupca, Matthias Hanczaruk, Ute Friedel, Hubert Weinberger, Sandra Revilla-Fernández, Erwin Hofer, Julia M. Riehm, Roger Stephan, and Walter Glawischnig
Author affiliations: Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene, Section of Veterinary Bacteriology, Vetsuisse Faculty University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (G. Ghielmetti, U. Friedel, R. Stephan); Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleissheim, Germany (A.M. Kupca, M. Hanczaruk, J.M. Riehm); Institute for Veterinary Disease Control, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Innsbruck and Mödling, Austria (H. Weinberger, S. Revilla-Fernández, E. Hofer, W. Glawischnig)
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Figure 4. Neighbor-joining tree based on the copy numbers of 24-loci mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit variable-number tandem-repeat analysis derived from 11 Mycobacterium microti clinical isolates and type strain M. microti Reed ATCC 19422T in study of tuberculosis caused by M. microti in red deer, Austria and Germany. We calculated the tree using the MIRU-VNTRplus server (https://www.miru-vntrplus.org; Appendix) and exported it using MEGAX version 10.11 (https://www.megasoftware.net). Scale bar indicates substitutions per site.
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