Volume 13, Number 11—November 2007
Dispatch
Onchocerca jakutensis Filariasis in Humans
Martina Koehsler*, Afschin Soleiman*, Horst Aspöck*, Herbert Auer*, and Julia Walochnik*
Table 1
Sequence similarities in the NADH dehydrogenase subunit 5 gene in the Onchocerca sp. isolated in this study and other Onchocerca spp.*
| Species | % Sequence similarity |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| arm | duk | fas | fle | gib | gut | jak | lie | och | ram | vol | This study | |
| arm | 100 | 94.03 | 91.54 | 91.54 | 92.04–92.53 | 86.07–92.54 | 92.04 | 91.54–92.54 | 89.55–93.03 | 81.59 | 93.03–94.03 | 92.04 |
| duk | 100 | 94.53 | 92.54 | 96.51–97.01 | 92.04–96.51 | 94.53 | 97.51–98.51 | 95.02–97.01 | 82.59 | 98.01–99.00 | 92.02 | |
| fas | 100 | 89.05 | 92.04–92.53 | 88.56–94.03 | 94.53 | 95.02–96.02 | 92.04–95.52 | 82.59 | 93.53–94.53 | 94.53 | ||
| fle | 100 | 93.03–95.03 | 86.57–92.04 | 91.04 | 91.04–92.04 | 90.55–92.04 | 82.09 | 92.53–93.53 | 91.04 | |||
| gib | 99.5 | 90.05–95.02 | 92.04–92.54 | 94.03–95.52 | 94.03–95.52 | 84.08–84.58 | 95.52–97.01 | 92.04–93.54 | ||||
| gut | 90.55–97.51 | 89.05–94.53 | 91.54–96.02 | 91.04–95.52 | 79.10–82.59 | 91.04–96.52 | 89.05–94.53 | |||||
| jak | 100 | 94.53–95.52 | 92.54–95.02 | 82.09 | 94.03–95.02 | 100 | ||||||
| lie | 98.51–100 | 94.53–98.51 | 83.08–84.08 | 96.52–98.51 | 94.53–95.52 | |||||||
| ochi | 94.53–100 | 81.59–84.58 | 94.03–98.01 | 92.54–95.02 | ||||||||
| ram | 100 | 83.58–84.08 | 82.09 | |||||||||
| vol | 98.51–100 | 94.03–95.02 | ||||||||||
| This study | 100 | |||||||||||
*arm, armillata; duk, dukei; fas, fassiata; fle, flexuosa; gib, gibsoni; gut, gutturosa; jak, jakutensis; lie, lienalis; och, ochegni; ram, ramachandrini; vol, volvulus.
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