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Volume 29, Number 12—December 2023
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Human Lobomycosis Caused by Paracoccidioides (Lacazia) loboi, Panama, 2022

Jose A. Suárez, Betty Cerrud, Monica Pachar, Luz H. Patiño, Jason Reidy, Amina Chace, Roderick Chen-Camaño, Diógenes Alvarado-Barría, Mohammad Z. Nakadar, Juan D. Ramirez, and Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi
Author affiliations: Universidad Internacional Sek Quito, Quito, Ecuador (J.A. Suárez); Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud, Panama City, Panama (B. Cerrud, R. Chen-Camaño); Hospital Santo Tomas, Panama City (M. Pachar); Panama College of Environmental Engineer, Panama City (D. Alvarado-Barría); Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA (J. Reidy, A. Chace, L. H Patiño, M.Z. Nakadar, J.D. Ramirez, A. Paniz-Mondolfi)

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Figure 2

Phylogenetic relationship of ADP-rf, Gp43, and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) 1 and 2 genes from patient in Panama who had lobomycosis with other Paracoccidioides species. Trees indicate phylogenetic analysis inferred by maximum-likelihood method of the ADP-rf (A), Gp43 (B), and ITS1–ITS2 (C) genes. Analyses included sequences obtained from research conducted by Vilela et al. (7) and the Panama case analyzed in this study (red). Each color in the trees represent different clusters identified: yellow, Paracoccidioides cetti; white, P. restrepiensis/venezuelensis; gray, P. brasiliensis; green, P. americana; light blue, P. lutzii; and light purple, P. loboi. Gray triangles indicate genomes of the same clade belonging to P. restrepiensis, P. venezuelensis, or P. brasiliensis (to the ADP-rf gene, 49 genomes; to the Gp43 gene, 32 genomes; and to ITS1-ITS2 gene, 52 genomes). Histoplasma capsulatum and Ajellomyces capsulatus DNA sequences were used as outgroups for ADP-rf and ITS genes, respectively. Scale bars indicate nucleotide substitutions per site.

Figure 2. Phylogenetic relationship of ADP-rf, Gp43, and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) 1 and 2 genes from patient in Panama who had lobomycosis with other Paracoccidioides species. Trees indicate phylogenetic analysis inferred by maximum-likelihood method of the ADP-rf (A), Gp43 (B), and ITS1–ITS2 (C) genes. Analyses included sequences obtained from research conducted by Vilela et al. (7) and the Panama case analyzed in this study (red). Each color in the trees represent different clusters identified: yellow, Paracoccidioides cetti; white, P. restrepiensis/venezuelensis; gray, P. brasiliensis; green, P. americana; light blue, P. lutzii; and light purple, P. loboi. Gray triangles indicate genomes of the same clade belonging to P. restrepiensis, P. venezuelensis, or P. brasiliensis (to the ADP-rf gene, 49 genomes; to the Gp43 gene, 32 genomes; and to ITS1-ITS2 gene, 52 genomes). Histoplasma capsulatum and Ajellomyces capsulatus DNA sequences were used as outgroups for ADP-rf and ITS genes, respectively. Scale bars indicate nucleotide substitutions per site.

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