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Volume 31, Number 6—June 2025

CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis

Multicenter Retrospective Study of Spiroplasma ixodetis Infantile Cataract in 8 Countries in Europe

Luc Van OsComments to Author , Nathalie Cassoux, Symira Cholidis, Pascal Dureau, Navid Farassat, Fabienne Catherine Fierz, Ebba Ghyczy, Elena-Cristina Nitulescu, Eva Stifter, Marie-José Tassignon, Anne Le Flèche-Matéos1, Birgit Lorenz1, and for the Spiroplasma Infantile Cataract Group2
Author affiliation: University Hospital Antwerp, Edegem, Belgium (L. Van Os, M. Tassignon); University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium (L. Van Os, M.-J. Tassignon); Institut Curie, Paris, France (N. Cassoux); Université Paris Descartes, Paris (N. Cassoux); Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway (S. Cholidis); Rothschild Foundation Hospital, Paris (P. Dureau); Medical Center–University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany (N. Farassat); University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (F.C. Fierz); Cantonal Hospital Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland (F.C. Fierz); Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (E. Ghyczy); Emergency Children’s Hospital Marie Sklodowska Curie, Bucharest, Romania (E.-C. Nitulescu); Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria (E. Stifter); Institut Pasteur, Paris (A. Le Fleche-Matéos); Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany (B. Lorenz)

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Figure 2

Neighbor-joining unrooted tree based on rrs gene sequences recovered from a multicenter retrospective study of Spiroplasma ixodetis infantile cataract in 8 countries in Europe. The study included a total of 18 children and 28 eyes. Numbers in parentheses are GenBank accession numbers. Scale bar represents substitutions per nucleotide position.

Figure 2. Neighbor-joining unrooted tree based on rrs gene sequences recovered from a multicenter retrospective study of Spiroplasma ixodetis infantile cataract in 8 countries in Europe. The study included a total of 18 children and 28 eyes. Numbers in parentheses are GenBank accession numbers. Scale bar represents substitutions per nucleotide position.

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1These senior authors contributed equally to this article.

2Additional members of the Spiroplasma Infantile Cataract Group who contributed data are listed at the end of this article.

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