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From: Tracking the geographical origin of Plasmodium falciparum causing a rare severe case of malaria imported into Palestine, a zero-indigenous case area

Fig. 2

UPGMA phylogenetic tree was constructed using MEGA-X free software, and showing relationships between the sequence of the msp-1 DNA of the isolate of the P. falciparum imported into Jericho and the 25 msp-1 DNA sequences from other strains of Plasmodium retrieved from the GenBank. Plasmodium spp. msp-1 DNA sequence isolated from gorilla clade G3 (Accession number LT969558.1) was used as an out-group. A bootstrap value of 1000 replicates was used to ensure robustness of the tree and shown as percentages at tree nodes. The tree was drawn to scale with branch lengths given in the same units as those of the evolutionary distances used to infer the phylogenetic tree [18,19,20,21]. The map shows the patient’s travel through five different geographical regions, two to three weeks before the appearance of the symptoms suggestive of malaria. Map was generated with Epi Info™ CDC-free software

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