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Onchocerca jakutensis Filariasis in Humans

Martina Koehsler*, Afschin Soleiman*, Horst Aspöck*, Herbert Auer*, and Julia Walochnik*

Author affiliations: *Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria;

Sequence similarities in the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene in the Onchocera sp. isolated in this study and other Onchocherca spp.*

Species	% Sequence similarity
Species	arm	duk	fas	fle	gib	gut	jak	lie	och	ram	vol	This study
arm	100	91.56	96.00	96.00	94.67	93.78–94.22	94.22	93.33-93.78	93.33–93.78	93.33	91.55–92.00	93.78
duki		100	95.56	92.00	95.56	94.67–95.11	94.67	95.11	96.89–97.33	91.11	96.89–97.33	91.11
fas			100	95.56	96.89	96.00–96.44	96.44	96.44–96.88	95.56–96.00	93.33	94.66–95.11	96.00
fle				100	94.22	94.22–94.66	95.56	93.78–94.22	92.40–92.88	93.78	92.44–92.89	95.11
gib					100	97.78–98.22	97.78	96.89–97.33	94.67	93.78	93.77–94.22	97.33
gut						99.10–100	96.89–97.33	96.00–96.89	93.33–93.77	91.56–92.00	93.33–93.78	96.89–97.33
jak							100	98.22–98.67	92.88–93.33	92.44	92.00–92.44	99.56
lie								99.56–100	93.33–93.78	92.44–92.88	92.44–92.88	97.78–98.22
och									99.56–100	91.11–91.55	97.33–98.22	93.33–93.78
ram										100	90.22–90.67	92.00
vol											99.56–100	92.44–92.89
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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