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Volume 13, Number 8—August 2007
Letter

Alistipes finegoldii in Blood Cultures from Colon Cancer Patients

Lukas Fenner*1, Véronique Roux*, Pascal Ananian†, and Didier Raoult*†Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *Hôpital de la Timone, Marseille, France; †Hôpital de la Conception, Marseille, France;

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Phylogenetic tree inferred from comparison of the 16S rRNA gene sequences of genera Bacteroides, Parabacteroidetes, Prevotella, and Alistipes. Nucleotide accession numbers for the sequences used to construct this dendrogram are given in parentheses. The tree was constructed with MEGA version 2.1 (www.megasoftware.net). Distance matrices were determined following the assumptions described by Kimura (3) and were used to elaborate the dendrogram with the neighbor-joining method. Bar, 0.05-nt change per nucleotide position. Streptococcus pneumoniae was used as the outgroup.

Figure. Phylogenetic tree inferred from comparison of the 16S rRNA gene sequences of genera Bacteroides, Parabacteroidetes, Prevotella, and Alistipes. Nucleotide accession numbers for the sequences used to construct this dendrogram are given in parentheses. The tree was constructed with MEGA version 2.1 (www.megasoftware.net). Distance matrices were determined following the assumptions described by Kimura (3) and were used to elaborate the dendrogram with the neighbor-joining method. Bar, 0.05-nt change per nucleotide position. Streptococcus pneumoniae was used as the outgroup.

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1Current affiliation: University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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