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Volume 30, Number 9—September 2024
Research Letter

Molecular Confirmation of Taenia solium Taeniasis in Child, Timor-Leste

Hanna Jin, Sung-Tae Hong, Merita Antonio Armindo Monteiro, Endang da Silva, Odete da Silva Viegas, Felix dos Santos Lopes, Dong Hee Kim, and Sung Hye KimComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea (H. Jin, S.-T. Hong, D.H. Kim); Ministry of Health, Dili, Timor-Leste (M.A.A. Monteiro, E. da Silva, O. da Silva Viegas); World Health Organization Timor-Leste Country Office, Dili (F. dos Santos Lopes); Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul (S.H. Kim)

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Phylogenetic analysis of the cox-1 gene in case study of Taenia solium taeniasis in a child, Timor-Leste. Evolutionary history was inferred by using the neighbor-joining method and analysis was conducted by using MEGA11 (4). Red box and bold text indicates the sequence from this study. GenBank accession numbers are indicated in parentheses. Percentages of replicate trees in which the associated taxa clustered together in the bootstrap test (1,000 replicates) are shown below the branches. Tree is drawn to scale; branch lengths (above the branches) are in the same units as those of the evolutionary distances used to infer the phylogenetic tree. The evolutionary distances were computed by using the Kimura 2–parameter method. Analysis involved 20-nt sequences. Codon positions included were first + second + third + noncoding. All ambiguous positions were removed for each sequence pair (pairwise deletion option). A total of 480 positions were in the final dataset. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.

Figure 2. Phylogenetic analysis of the cox-1 gene in case study of Taenia solium taeniasis in a child, Timor-Leste. Evolutionary history was inferred by using the neighbor-joining method and analysis was conducted by using MEGA11 (4). Red box and bold text indicates the sequence from this study. GenBank accession numbers are indicated in parentheses. Percentages of replicate trees in which the associated taxa clustered together in the bootstrap test (1,000 replicates) are shown below the branches. Tree is drawn to scale; branch lengths (above the branches) are in the same units as those of the evolutionary distances used to infer the phylogenetic tree. The evolutionary distances were computed by using the Kimura 2–parameter method. Analysis involved 20-nt sequences. Codon positions included were first + second + third + noncoding. All ambiguous positions were removed for each sequence pair (pairwise deletion option). A total of 480 positions were in the final dataset. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.

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