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Volume 29, Number 3—March 2023
Dispatch

Mycobacterium leprae in Armadillo Tissues from Museum Collections, United States

Daniel Romero-AlvarezComments to Author , Daniel Garzon-Chavez, Mary Jackson, Charlotte Avanzi, and A. Townsend Peterson
Author affiliations: Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Ecuador (D. Romero-Alvarez); University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA (D. Romero-Alvarez, A.T. Peterson); Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador (D. Garzon-Chavez); Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (M. Jackson, C. Avanzi)

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Comparative genomics of the Mycobacterium leprae sequenced this study from armadillo tissues from US museums and those from humans and armadillos from the United States and Mexico. Samples subjected to whole-genome sequencing, USA-am-109 and USA-am-209, clustered among genomes from humans and armadillos from the United States (branch 3I). The tree represents a zoom into the M. leprae genotypes 3I-1 and 3I-2 from a maximum-parsimony tree of 302 M. leprae genomes rooted with M. lepromatosis as outgroup. The tree was built in MEGA version 11 software (https://www.megasoftware.net). Support values were obtained by bootstrapping 500 replicates. Scale bar indicates number of nucleotide substitutions.

Figure 2. Comparative genomics of the Mycobacterium leprae sequenced this study from armadillo tissues from US museums and those from humans and armadillos from the United States and Mexico. Samples subjected to whole-genome sequencing, USA-am-109 and USA-am-209, clustered among genomes from humans and armadillos from the United States (branch 3I). The tree represents a zoom into the M. leprae genotypes 3I-1 and 3I-2 from a maximum-parsimony tree of 302 M. leprae genomes rooted with M. lepromatosis as outgroup. The tree was built in MEGA version 11 software (https://www.megasoftware.net). Support values were obtained by bootstrapping 500 replicates. Scale bar indicates number of nucleotide substitutions.

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