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SUBMITTER: Evans SM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6073748 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Evans Sean M SM Adcox Haley E HE VieBrock Lauren L Green Ryan S RS Luce-Fedrow Alison A Chattopadhyay Suschsmita S Jiang Ju J Marconi Richard T RT Paris Daniel D Richards Allen L AL Carlyon Jason A JA
Tropical medicine and infectious disease 20180611 2
Scrub typhus threatens one billion people in the Asia-Pacific area and cases have emerged outside this region. It is caused by infection with any of the multitude of strains of the bacterium <i>Orientia tsutsugamushi</i>. A vaccine that affords heterologous protection and a commercially-available molecular diagnostic assay are lacking. Herein, we determined that the nucleotide and translated amino acid sequences of outer membrane protein A (OmpA) are highly conserved among 51 <i>O. tsutsugamushi ...[more]