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SUBMITTER: Nakayama K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2955711 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes 20100803 5
Orientia tsutsugamushi (OT) is an obligate intracellular bacterium belonging to the family Rickettsiaceae and is the causative agent of scrub typhus, or Tsutsugamushi disease. The complete genome sequences of two OT strains (Boryong and Ikeda) have recently been determined. In the present study, we performed a fine genome sequence comparison of these strains. Our results indicate that although the core gene set of the family Rickettsiaceae is highly conserved between the two strains, a common se ...[more]