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Use of highly variable intergenic spacer sequences for multispacer typing of Rickettsia conorii strains.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Dec 2004
Fournier Pierre-Edouard, Zhu Yong, Ogata Hiroyuki, Raoult Didier
Abstract excerpt
By use of the nearly perfectly colinear genomes of Rickettsia conorii and Rickettsia prowazekii, we compared the usefulness of three types of sequences for typing of R. conorii isolates: (i) 5 variable coding genes comprising the 16S ribosomal DNA, gltA, ompB, and sca4 (gene D) genes, which are present in both genomes, and the ompA gene, which is degraded in R. prowazekii; (ii) 28 genes degraded in R. conorii but...
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