Phylogenetic characterization of Orientia tsutsugamushi isolated in Taiwan according to the sequence homologies of 56-kDa type-specific antigen genes

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 577-583

  Qiang, Yu ^a   Tamura, Akira ^a   Urakami, Hiroshi ^a   Makisaka, Yukie ^a   Koyama, Shoichiro ^a   Fukuhara, Masahiro ^a   Kadosaka, Teruki ^b  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

56 kDa type specific antigen gene; Orientia tsutsugamushi; Phylogenetic analysis; Restriction fragment length polymorphism; Taiwan strain

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TAIWAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PROKARYOTA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0041971314     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2003.tb03420.x     Document Type: Article

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