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Volume 32, Number 5—May 2026

Dispatch

Exposure in Horses to Human Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Agent Borrelia persica, Israel, 2025

Dor ShwartzComments to Author , Lior Haras, Yaarit Nachum-Biala, Sharon Tirosh-Levy, Amir Steinman, and Gad Baneth
Author affiliation: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, Rehovot, Israel

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Figure 4

Maximum-likelihood phylogram comparing 224 bp DNA fragment sequences of the glpQ gene from the positive horse sequences from other B. persica and other Borrelia spp. GenBank accessions. Bold indicates new sequence derived from this study . GenBank accession number, species of infected host, and country of origin is provided for each sequence. The Tamura 3-parameter model was used in the construction of this phylogram with bootstrap performed on 1,000 replicates; values >70% are indicated. Scale bar represents the number of nucleotide substitutions per site; branch numbers indicate bootstrap support values, expressed as percentages.

Figure 4. Maximum-likelihood phylogram comparing 224 bp DNA fragment sequences of the glpQ gene from the positive horse sequences from other B. persica and other Borrelia spp. GenBank accessions. Bold indicates new sequence derived from this study . GenBank accession number, species of infected host, and country of origin is provided for each sequence. The Tamura 3-parameter model was used in the construction of this phylogram with bootstrap performed on 1,000 replicates; values >70% are indicated. Scale bar represents the number of nucleotide substitutions per site; branch numbers indicate bootstrap support values, expressed as percentages.

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