Sequence Analysis of SAG2 of Feline Toxoplasma gondii Oocysts in Pakistan

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Sequence Analysis of SAG2 of Feline Toxoplasma gondii Oocysts in Pakistan

**Habibun Nabi¹, Saher Islam², Amna Arshad Bajwa², Imran Rashid^1,*, Haroon Akbar¹, Wasim Shehzad², Kamran Ashraf¹, Nisar Ahmad¹ and Aneela Durrani³**

Author Affiliations

¹Molecular Parasitology Laboratory Department of Parasitology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

²Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

³Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

* Corresponding author: [email protected]

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Fig 1

Agarose gel eletrophoresis of SAG2 gene products (242, 171, 211, 230 and 288bp).

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Fig 2

Phylogenetic and bootstrapping analysis of 3 isolates with published archetypal lineages and atypical strains. UVAS-Toxo 1, 3 and 6 are our isolates from cat feces. XM_00384580 is the SAG2 sequence of Neospora caninum served as out-group. AF357581 is the SAG2 sequence of atypical T. gondii strain.

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Fig 3

Clustal W alignment of 3 isolates of this study with the representative 3 clonal strains of Type I (EU053942), Type II (EU053943) and Type III (EU053944). Red rectangular marked sequences show dissimilarity of our isolates at 5’ locus of SAG2 with Type I, II and III strains.

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