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SUBMITTER: Zhu Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1234059 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhu Yong Y Fournier Pierre-Edouard PE Ogata Hiroyuki H Raoult Didier D
Journal of clinical microbiology 20050901 9
Currently, there is no tool for typing Rickettsia prowazekii, the causative agent of epidemic typhus, currently considered a potential bioterrorism agent, at the strain level. To test if the multispacer typing (MST) method could differentiate strains of R. prowazekii, we amplified and sequenced the 25 most variable intergenic spacers between the R. prowazekii and R. conorii genomes in five strains and 10 body louse amplicons of R. prowazekii from various geographic origins. Two intergenic spacer ...[more]