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Volume 20, Number 1—January 2014
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Increasing Threat of Brucellosis to Low-Risk Persons in Urban Settings, China

Shouyi Chen1, Hao Zhang1, Xiaoning Liu1, Wenjing Wang1, Shuiping Hou, Tingting Li, Shuoxian Zhao, Zhicong Yang, and Chengyao LiComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, China (S. Chen, H. Zhang, X. Liu, S. Hou, Z. Yang); Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China (W. Wang, T. Li, S. Zhao, C. Li)

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Figure 2

Genetic relationship between the strain isolated in this study (BRU-TZ) and other Brucella melitensis strains. The variable number of tandem repeats were obtained for phylogenetic analysis at multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis bank version-4 (http://mlva.u-psud.fr) (5,6). The phylogenetic tree was plotted on the differences in variable number of tandem repeats at 16 loci obtained by multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis.

Figure 2. Genetic relationship between the strain isolated in this study (BRU-TZ) and other Brucella melitensis strains. The variable number of tandem repeats were obtained for phylogenetic analysis at multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis bank version-4 (http://mlva.u-psud.fr) (5,6). The phylogenetic tree was plotted on the differences in variable number of tandem repeats at 16 loci obtained by multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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