Volume 11, Number 11, November 2005

Tickborne Pathogen Detection, Western Siberia, Russia

Vera A. Rar,* Natalia V. Fomenko,* Andrey K. Dobrotvorsky,† Natalya N. Livanova,† Svetlana A. Rudakova,‡ Evgeniy G. Fedorov,§ Vadim B. Astanin,§ and Olga V. Morozova*
*Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia; †Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Novosibirsk, Russia; ‡Omsk Research Institute of Natural Focus Infections, Omsk, Russia; and §Center of Epidemiological Control of Novosibirsk Region, Novosibirsk, Russia

Figure 5. Phylogenetic tree based on the Babesia 18S rRNA gene fragment sequences. Scale bar indicates an evolutionary distance of 0.02 nucleotides per position in the sequence. Plasmodium falciparum was used as outgroup. Numbers above the branches indicate bootstrap support indexes. Samples from Dermacentor reticulatus (Dr-2 and Dr-5) from this study are in boldface.

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