Diversity of the 47-kD HtrA nucleic acid and translated amino acid sequences from 17 recent human isolates of Orientia

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 367-375

  Jiang, Ju ^a   Paris, Daniel H ^b   Blacksell, Stuart D ^b   Aukkanit, Nuntipa ^b   Newton, Paul N ^b,c   Phetsouvanh, Rattanaphone ^c,d   Izzard, Leonard ^e   Stenos, John ^e   Graves, Stephen R ^e   Day, Nicholas P J ^b   Richards, Allen L ^a,f  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e GEELONG HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

47 kD HtrA protein gene; Antigenic diversity; Orientia tsutsugamushi; Scrub typhus; vaccine development

Indexed keywords

TYPHUS VACCINE;

47 KD HTRA GENE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHINA; DNA SEQUENCE; JAPAN; KOREA; LAOS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MYANMAR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; ORIENTIA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THAILAND; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LAOS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PHYLOGENY; SCRUB TYPHUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; THAILAND; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

MURINAE; ORIENTIA; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PRIMATES;

EID: 84878556148     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2012.1112     Document Type: Article

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