Volume 28, Number 11—November 2022
Research Letter
Presence of Spirometra mansoni, Causative Agent of Sparganosis, in South America
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Figure. Maximum-likelihood estimate of the phylogenetic position of a Spirometra mansoni tapeworm collected from a crab-eating fox (Cerdocyon thous) in Colombia. Red indicates specimens from South America; bold indicates newly characterized S. mansoni from this report. Names of the 3 species-level lineages of Spirometra in South America are indicated; GenBank numbers are provided. Nodal support values show standard bootstrap supports >50. Scale bar indicates number of substitutions per site.
1These authors contributed equally to this article.