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Diagnostic assay for Rickettsia japonica
Nozomu Hanaoka1, Minenosuke Matsutani, Hiroki Kawabata
1National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|December 8, 2009
Abstract:
We developed a specific and rapid detection system for Rickettsia japonica and R. heilongjiangensis, the causative agents of spotted fever, using a TaqMan minor groove binder probe for a particular open reading frame (ORF) identified by the R. japonica genome project. The target ORF was present only in R. japonica-related strains.

