Rare Case of Echinostoma cinetorchis Infection, South Korea
Sooji Hong, Hyejoo Shin, Yoon-Hee Lee, Sung-Jong Hong, So-Ri Kim, Youn-Kyoung Kim, Young-Jin Son, Jeong-Gil Song, Jong-Yil Chai, and Bong-Kwang Jung
Author affiliations: MediCheck Research Institute, Korea Association of Health Promotion, Seoul, South Korea (S. Hong, H. Shin, Y.-H. Lee, J.-Y. Chai, B.-K. Jung); Convergence Research Center for Insect Vectors, Incheon National University, Incheon, South Korea (S.-J. Hong); Dr. Song Jeong-Gil’s Internal Medical Clinic, Pyeongtaek, South Korea (S.-R. Kim, Y.-K. Kim, Y.-J. Son, J.-G. Song); Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul (J.-Y. Chai)
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Figure 2. Phylogenetic trees of a worm identified as Echinostoma cinetorchis removed during colonoscopy from a 69-year-old woman in South Korea (bold text). Trees were based on nucleotide sequences of the NADH dehydrogenase 1 gene (A), cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 mitochondrial gene (B), and internal transcribed spacer region (C) of the worm in comparison with various echinostome species deposited in GenBank (accession numbers shown), inferred by the neighbor-joining method (1,000 bootstrap replications) using the Geneious Prime Program 2023.1.2. (Geneious, https://www.geneious.com). Echinoparyphium aconiatum (NADH dehydrogenase 1 and cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 mitochondrial genes) and Echinoparyphium sp. (internal transcribed spacer) were used as the outgroups. Scale bars indicate evolutionary distance.
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