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Volume 28, Number 7—July 2022
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Chronic Pulmonary Disease Caused by Tsukamurella toyonakaense

Tomoki Kuge, Kiyoharu FukushimaComments to Author , Yuki Matsumoto, Haruko Saito, Yuko Abe, Eri Akiba, Kako Haduki, Tadayoshi Nitta, Akira Kawano, Michio Tanaka, Yumi Hattori, Takahiro Kawasaki, Takanori Matsuki, Takayuki Shiroyama, Daisuke Motooka, Kazuyuki Tsujino, Keisuke Miki, Masahide Mori, Seigo Kitada, Shota Nakamura, Tetsuya Iida, Atsushi Kumanogoh, and Hiroshi Kida
Author affiliations: Osaka University, Osaka, Japan (T. Kuge, K. Fukushima, Y. Matsumoto, Y. Abe, M. Tanaka, Y. Hattori, T. Shiroyama, D. Motooka, S. Nakamura, T. Iida, A. Kumanogoh); Toneyama Medical Center, Osaka (K. Fukushima, H. Saito, E. Akiba, K. Haduki, T. Nitta, A. Kawano, T. Kawasaki, T. Matsuki, K. Tsujino, K. Miki, M. Mori, H. Kida); Kitada Respiratory Clinic, Osaka (S. Kitada)

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Figure 2

Maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree constructed by using 16S rRNA sequences of Tsukamurella spp. and other bacterial species. Bold indicates strain isolated in this study. Reference sequences were obtained from SILVA database (4) release 138 as small subunit reference nonredundant 99 sequences, which showed >98.7% identity with strain TY48. GenBank accession numbers are provided for reference sequences. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.

Figure 2. Maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree constructed by using 16S rRNA sequences of Tsukamurella spp. and other bacterial species. Bold indicates strain isolated in this study. Reference sequences were obtained from SILVA database (4) release 138 as small subunit reference nonredundant 99 sequences, which showed >98.7% identity with strain TY48. GenBank accession numbers are provided for reference sequences. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.

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