Genome comparison and phylogenetic analysis of orientia tsutsugamushi strains

DNA Research

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 281-291

  Nakayama, Keisuke ^a   Kurokawa, Ken ^b   Fukuhara, Masahiro ^c   Urakami, Hiroshi ^c   Yamamoto, Seigo ^d   Yamazaki, Kazuko ^a   Ogura, Yoshitoshi ^a   Ooka, Tadasuke ^a   Hayashi, Tetsuya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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

^d Miyazaki Prefectural Institute for Public Health and Environment   (Japan)

Author keywords

genome rearrangement; genome sequence comparison; multilocus sequence analysis; Orientia tsutsugamushi; phylogenetic analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PHYLOGENY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONTIG MAPPING; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIACEAE; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; RICKETTSIACEAE;

EID: 77958133269     PISSN: 13402838     EISSN: 17561663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dsq018     Document Type: Article

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