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Far-East Asian Toxoplasma isolates share ancestry with North and South/Central American recombinant lineages.
Nature communications - 22 May 2024
Ihara Fumiaki, Kyan Hisako, Takashima Yasuhiro, Ono Fumiko, Hayashi Kei, Matsuo Tomohide, Igarashi Makoto, Nishikawa Yoshifumi, Hikosaka Kenji, Sakamoto Hirokazu, Nakamura Shota, Motooka Daisuke, Yamauchi Kiyoshi, Ichikawa-Seki Madoka, Fukumoto Shinya, Sasaki Motoki, Ikadai Hiromi, Kusakisako Kodai, Ohari Yuma, Yoshida Ayako, Sasai Miwa, Grigg Michael E, Yamamoto Masahiro
Abstract excerpt
Toxoplasma gondii is a global protozoan pathogen. Clonal lineages predominate in Europe, North America, Africa, and China, whereas highly recombinant parasites are endemic in South/Central America. Far East Asian T. gondii isolates are not included in current global population genetic structure analyses at WGS resolution. Here we report a genome-wide population study that compared eight Japanese and two Chinese...
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