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Published on: October 11, 2022
Genome sequence of Rickettsia australis, the agent of Queensland tick typhus
Xin Dong1, Khalid El Karkouri, Catherine Robert
1Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée-Infection, UMR CNRS 7278-IRD 198, Faculté de Médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France.
Abstract:
Rickettsia australis strain Phillips(T) was isolated in Queensland, Australia, in 1950. It is the tick-borne agent of Queensland tick typhus, a disease endemic in Australia. The 1.29-Mb genome sequence of this bacterium is highly similar to that of Rickettsia akari but contains two plasmids.
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