Table 2.

Nucleotide polymorphisms in 18S gene sequences of P. brasilianum and P. malariae isolates.

The table shows that no distinctive marker for P. brasilianum could be identified. The SNP positions given vertically above are numbered according to the nucleotide sequences of P. brasilianum (GenBank AF130735). Dots represent identical residues; dashes represent deletions. P. brasilianum and P. malariae sequences from this study are shown in red and blue, respectively. The numbers in brackets denote the number of identical isolates found in this study. Apart of the four P. malariae strains VEN1, VEN2, VEN3, and VEN4, all isolates identified in this study are identical to pre-existing P. malariae/P. brasilianum sequences.