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Volume 25, Number 7—July 2019
Research Letter

Disseminated Metacestode Versteria Species Infection in Woman, Pennsylvania, USA1

Bethany LehmanComments to Author , Sixto M. Leal, Gary W. Procop, Elise O’Connell, Jahangheer Shaik, Theodore E. Nash, Thomas B. Nutman, Stephen Jones, Stephanie Braunthal, Shetal N. Shah, Michael W. Cruise, Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, and Jona Banzon
Author affiliations: Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA (B. Lehman, G.W. Procop, S. Jones, S. Braunthal, S.N. Shah, M.W. Cruise, S. Mukhopadhyay, J. Banzon); University of Alabama Medical Center, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA (S.M. Leal, Jr.); National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (E. O’Connell, J. Shaik, T.E. Nash, T.B. Nutman)

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Test results for woman with disseminated Versteria sp. cestode infection, Pennsylvania, USA. A) Sequence of the 129-bp fragment of cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (cox1) gene from patient compared with 3 closely related Versteria sp. isolates from the United States. Shading indicates differing nucleotides. B) Phylogenetic tree based on the cox1 gene of all reported Vm cox1 sequences with country of origin and other clinically relevant cestodes; GenBank accession numbers are provided. Boldface ind

Figure. Test results for woman with disseminated Versteria sp. cestode infection, Pennsylvania, USA. A) Sequence of the 129-bp fragment of cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (cox1) gene from patient compared with 3 closely related Versteria sp. isolates from the United States. Shading indicates differing nucleotides. B) Phylogenetic tree based on the cox1 gene of all reported Vm cox1 sequences with country of origin and other clinically relevant cestodes; GenBank accession numbers are provided. Boldface indicates the Vm sequence reported in this study; shading represents the outbranching of Vm. Bootstrap values are shown. Ch, China; Eg, Echinococcus granulosus; Em, Echinococcus multilocularis; Fi, Finland; Ja, Japan; Me, Mexico; Ru, Russia; Sp, Spain; Tm, Taenia multiceps; Tse, T. serialis; Tso, T. solium; US, United States; Vm, Versteria sp. mitochondrial.

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1This manuscript was originally presented at the Infectious Disease Society of America IDWeek 2018; October 3–7, 2018; San Francisco, CA, USA.

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