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Volume 28, Number 11—November 2022
Research

Fungal Endophthalmitis Outbreak after Cataract Surgery, South Korea, 2020

Soo Jeong Yoon1, Soo Hyun Kim1, Hyun Jung Bahk, Yeong Seo Ahn, Ji Joo Lee, Hye Jin Kim, Ha Jin Lim, Min Ji Choi, Jong Hee Shin, and Yeon-Kyeng LeeComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, Cheongju, South Korea (S.J. Yoon, H.J. Bahk, Y.S. Ahn, J.J. Lee, H.J. Kim, Y.-K. Lee); Chonnam National University Medical School, Hwasun, South Korea (S.H. Kim, H.J. Lim, M.J. Choi, J.H. Shin)

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Figure 4

Sequence of outbreak strain matched to Fusarium oxysporum strain in a study of fungal endophthalmitis outbreaks after cataract surgery, South Korea, 2020. A) We matched 2020ASF-167 translation elongation factor 1-α (TEF1α) gene of the outbreak strain with a control strain (GenBank accession no. MN646762.1) B) Phylogenetic tree of the concatenated sequences from 3 genes (TEF1α, RPB1, and RPB2). Phylogenetic data include outbreak strain from 2 A-OVDs, 12 clinical isolates, 3 preoutbreak controls, and 3 outgroup sequences collected from GenBank database. Scale bar indicates the number of nucleotide substitutions per site. A-OVD, ocular viscoelastic devices from company A.

Figure 4. Sequence of outbreak strain matched to Fusarium oxysporum strain in a study of fungal endophthalmitis outbreaks after cataract surgery, South Korea, 2020. A) We matched 2020ASF-167 translation elongation factor 1-α (TEF1α) gene of the outbreak strain with a control strain (GenBank accession no. MN646762.1) B) Phylogenetic tree of the concatenated sequences from 3 genes (TEF1α, RPB1, and RPB2). Phylogenetic data include outbreak strain from 2 A-OVDs, 12 clinical isolates, 3 preoutbreak controls, and 3 outgroup sequences collected from GenBank database. Scale bar indicates the number of nucleotide substitutions per site. A-OVD, ocular viscoelastic devices from company A.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this work.

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