Transmission of Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus to Human from Nonindigenous Tick Host, Japan
Qiang Xu, Takeshi Nabeshima, Koichiro Hamada, Takashi Sugimoto, Mya Myat Ngwe Tun, Kouichi Morita, Hirotomo Yamanashi, Takahiro Maeda, Koya Ariyoshi, and Yuki Takamatsu
Author affiliation: Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan (Q. Xu, T. Nabeshima, K. Hamada, T. Sugimoto, M.M. Ngwe Tun, K. Morita, H. Yamanashi, T. Maeda, K. Ariyoshi, Y. Takamatsu); Shimane University, Izumo, Japan (M.M. Ngwe Tun)
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Figure 2. Phylogenetic trees based on the coding sequence of the SFTSV segments from a human patient in Japan and a Haemaphysalis aborensis tick collected from the patient. A) Large segment; B) medium segment; C) small segment. Blue circles indicate patient-derived SFTSV strains and red squares tick-derived strains from this study. Labels at right of each tree represent SFTSV genotypes A‒F. We derived the phylogenetic trees using the maximum-likelihood method and general time-reversible model and ran 1,000 bootstrap replicates using MEGA 11.0.13 (https://www.megasoftware.net). Scale bars indicate the number of base differences per site. SFTSV, severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus.
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