Novel Rickettsia raoultii strain isolated and propagated from Austrian Dermacentor reticulatus ticks

Parasites & Vectors

Table 2 Relationship of R. raoultii strain Jongejan with available NCBI sequences

Target	Accession no.	Size (bp)	Identity (%)^a	Closest related R. raoultii sequence
16S ribosomal RNA	KX500096	252	99	KJ410261.1
23S-5S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer	KX500097	157	100^b	CP010969.1
sca4	KX500095	802	100^c	DQ365807.1
ompA	KX500093	513	100	AH009131.2
ompB	KX500094	710	100	KU310593.1
gltA	KX500092	259	100	KU310589.1

^aIdentity according to NCBI BLAST (blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) analysis
^bContains a 60 base-pair deletion when compared with the reference genome (CP010969.1)
^cSingle nucleotide insertion results into a pseudogene

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