Molecular detection of Orientia tsutsugamushi in ectoparasites & their small mammal hosts captured from scrub typhus endemic areas in Madurai district, India

R. Govindarajan; S. Gowri Sankar; M. Senthil Kumar; V. Rajamannar; R. Krishnamoorthi; A. Alwin Prem Anand; Ashwani Kumar; P. Philip Samuel

doi:10.4103/ijmr.ijmr_3530_21

Table VIII

Estimates of net evolutionary divergence between groups of sequences

Clade	Clade I	Clade II	Clade III	Clade IV	Out group
Clade I		0.726^*	0.855^*	1.24^#*	1.608^*
Clade II	0.952		0.794^*	1.24^#*	1.226^*
Clade III	1.449	1.372		0.939^#*	0.906^*
Clade IV	1.966^#	1.643^#	1.54^#		0.09^#*
Out group	1.939	1.585	1.346	0.366^#

^#Clades representing our sequences. The numbers of base substitutions per site from estimation of net average between clades are shown. ^*Standard error estimate(s) are shown above the diagonal. Analyses were conducted using the MCL model using MEGA7. The analysis involved 167 nucleotide sequences. There were a total of 142 positions in the final dataset