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. 2011 Jul;17(7):1331-3.
doi: 10.3201/eid1707.101822.

Endemic angiostrongyliasis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Raquel O Simoes, Fernando A Monteiro, Elizabeth Sanchez, Silvana C Thiengo, Juberlan S Garcia, Socrates F Costa-Neto, Jose L Luque, Arnaldo Maldonado

Endemic angiostrongyliasis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Raquel O Simoes et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2011 Jul.
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Neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree based on Kimura 2-parameter (K2-p) distances that includes all Angiostrongylus COI sequences in GenBank and the sequences obtained from 3 Angiostrongylus specimens recovered from the pulmonary arteries of a naturally infected Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus) from São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2010. The specimens yielded 1 haplotype, which clustered together with the A. cantonensis haplotype from the People’s Republic of China with a low genetic distance (K2-p 0.038). Scale bar indicates 0.02 K2-p genetic distance.
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