Fatal Mixed Plasmodium Infection in Traveler Returning to Colombia from Comoros Islands, 2024
Leidy J. Medina-Lozano, Sergio Andrés Bolívar Lozano, Carolina Guavita, Milena Camargo, Luz Helena Patiño, Juan David Ramírez, Diana Carolina Gutiérrez-González, and Álvaro A. Faccini-Martínez
Author affiliation: Hospital Militar Central, Bogotá, Colombia (L.J. Medina-Lozano, S.A. Bolívar Lozano, C. Guavita, D.C. Gutiérrez-González, Á.A. Faccini-Martínez); Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, Bogotá (S.A. Bolívar Lozano, C. Guavita, Á.A. Faccini-Martínez); Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá (M. Camargo, L.H. Patiño, J.D. Ramírez); Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA (J.D. Ramírez)
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Figure. Phylogenetic tree of the DNA sequences of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax (red text) isolated from traveler returning to Colombia from the Comoros Islands, 2024, and compared with sequences reported from other countries. The red points on the tree represent bootstraps >80%.
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