Figure 1. <b>Phylogenetic tree </b><b><i>Burkholderia pseudomallei</i></b><b> strains</b>

Phylogenetic tree of Burkholderia pseudomallei (BP) strains. The genetic similarity of the strains.BP1, BP2, MAA2018, MWH2021 and MST 2022 to other BP strains was determined by comparative sequence analysis of all complete genomes of 128 BP strains available in the NCBI data base as of June 2023. The five clinical strains BP1, BP2, MAA2018, MWH2021 and MST 2022 were isolated from Melioidosis cases diagnosed in Israel in the past 6 years. See references 1 and 2 (below) for BP1, BP2 and MAA2018 (NCBI accession number SAMN11081001). The genomes of the novel clinical strains MWH2021 and MST2022 are available in the NCBI data base as: GCF_030913145.1 and GCA_030144945.1, respectively.Israeli O, Cohen-Gihon I, Brosh-Nissimov T, Zvi A, Beth-Din A, Shifman O, Israeli M, Elia U, Lazar S, Bar-Haim E, Cohen O, Chitlaru T. Draft Genome Sequence of a Rare Israeli Clinical Isolate of Burkholderia pseudomallei. Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 May 9;8(19):e00281-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00281-19. Erratum in: Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Oct 3;8(40): PMID: 31072902; PMCID: PMC6509527.Brosh-Nissimov T, Grupel D, Abuhasira S, Leskes H, Israeli M, Lazar S, Elia U, Israeli O, Beth-Din A, Bar-Haim E, Cohen-Gihon I, Zvi A, Cohen O, Chitlaru T. Case Report: Imported Melioidosis from Goa, India to Israel, 2018. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2019 Sep;101(3):580-584. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.19-0303. Erratum in: Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2019</p