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. 2011 May;49(5):2006-8.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.00372-11. Epub 2011 Mar 9.

Identification and genotyping of Enterocytozoon bieneusi in China

Xu Zhang  1 , Zhaoxia Wang, Yan Su, Xiaoying Liang, Xiaojing Sun, Shuai Peng, Huijun Lu, Ning Jiang, Jigang Yin, Mei Xiang, Qijun Chen
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Identification and genotyping of Enterocytozoon bieneusi in China

Xu Zhang et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2011 May.

Abstract

In this study, the prevalence of Enterocytozoon bieneusi in China was investigated. Twelve genotypes of E. bieneusi were identified, of which 10 were novel genotypes. Further, 41.6% of the genotypes were found in both humans and animals. This is the first report of E. bieneusi in China.

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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Sequence variation in the ITS region of the rRNA gene of E. bieneusi isolates. The ITS sequences of the 10 distinct new genotypes (CHN1 to CHN10) identified in this study were aligned with that of the 4 known genotypes (I, J, K, and G). Dots indicate sequence identity to J, while dashes indicate deletions.
Fig. 2.
Fig. 2.
Phylogenetic relationships of the 10 distinct new genotypes (CHN1 to CHN10) identified in this study with 4 known genotypes (I, J, K, and G) of E. bieneusi inferred by a neighbor-joining analysis of internal transcribed spacer sequences based on genetic distances calculated by the Kimura two-parameter model. Numbers on the branches are percent bootstrapping values from 1,000 replicates.
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