Genetic Evidence for a Potentially New Pathogenic Leptospira sp. Circulating in Bats from Brazilian Amazon

Table 2

Interspecific genetic distance (bellow diagonal) calculated with the Tamura–Nei parameter between the sequences from this study (represented with ) and those from GenBank (overall mean between sequences for each species).

Species	L. alexanderi	L. borgpetersenii	L. interrogans	L. kirshnerii	L. noguchii	Leptospira sp.	L. weilii	L. santarosai	L. alstonii
L. alexanderi	0.01	0.01	0.03	0.02	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.01	0.02
L. borgpetersenii	0.07	0.01	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.02
L. interrogans	0.21	0.23	0.00	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.02
L. kirshnerii	0.20	0.21	0.11	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.03
L. noguchii	0.21	0.21	0.11	0.11	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.03	0.03
Leptospira n sp.	0.24	0.23	0.13	0.14	0.12	0.01	0.03	0.03	0.03
L. weilii	0.11	0.12	0.18	0.17	0.21	0.21	0.01	0.02	0.02
L. santarosai	0.10	0.10	0.23	0.20	0.23	0.25	0.12	0.03	0.02
L. alstonii	0.16	0.17	0.17	0.19	0.18	0.20	0.19	0.16	0.00

Standard deviation is shown above diagonal in underline. The analysis included 428 nucleotide sequences from secY gene. Genetic distances between sequences from the present study and reference sequences are in bold. Intraspecific genetic distances are in italic along the diagonal.