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Volume 30, Number 6—June 2024
Dispatch

Autochthonous Plasmodium vivax Infections, Florida, USA, 2023

Azhar Muneer1, Swamy R. Adapa1, Suzane Silbert, Kelly Scanlan, Harold Vore, Andrew Cannons, Andrea M. Morrison, Danielle Stanek, Carina Blackmore, John H. Adams, Kami Kim2, Rays H.Y. Jiang2, and Liwang Cui2Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, USA (A. Muneer, K. Kim, L. Cui); University of South Florida School of Public Health, Tampa (S.R. Adapa, J.H. Adams, K. Kim, R.H.Y. Jiang); Tampa General Hospital, Tampa (S. Silbert, K. Kim); Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Sarasota, Florida, USA (K. Scanlan, H. Vore); Florida Department of Health Bureau of Public Health Laboratories, Tampa (A. Cannons); Florida Department of Health, Tallahassee, Florida, USA (A.M. Morrison, D. Stanek, C. Blackmore)

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Phylogenetic analysis of Plasmodium vivax strains from blood samples from malaria patients, Florida, USA, May–July 2023, suggesting Central/South America origin. A) Geographic distribution of 53 high-quality global strains selected from >1,000 global P. vivax collections. B) Florida P. vivax strains clustering with Central/South America strains. The phylogenetic tree was constructed by using the maximum-likelihood method, and 1,000 bootstrap replications are shown next to the branches. The color coding of the geographic origin of the isolates matches the global map in panel A. The US and Central/South American cluster is shaded gray. The 4 Florida P. vivax strains are denoted as 1AS1, 2AS2, 3AS3, and 4AS4. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.

Figure 2. Phylogenetic analysis of Plasmodium vivax strains from blood samples from malaria patients, Florida, USA, May–July 2023, suggesting Central/South America origin. A) Geographic distribution of 53 high-quality global strains selected from >1,000 global P. vivax collections. B) Florida P. vivax strains clustering with Central/South America strains. The phylogenetic tree was constructed by using the maximum-likelihood method, and 1,000 bootstrap replications are shown next to the branches. The color coding of the geographic origin of the isolates matches the global map in panel A. The US and Central/South American cluster is shaded gray. The 4 Florida P. vivax strains are denoted as 1AS1, 2AS2, 3AS3, and 4AS4. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

2These authors were co-principal investigators.

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