Genomic Sequencing of Orientia tsutsugamushi Strain Karp, an Assembly Comparable to the Genome Size of the Strain Ikeda

Hsiao-Mei Liao; Chien-Chung Chao; Haiyan Lei; Bingjie Li; Shien Tsai; Guo-Chiuan Hung; Wei-Mei Ching; Shyh-Ching Lo

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00702-16

Genomic Sequencing of Orientia tsutsugamushi Strain Karp, an Assembly Comparable to the Genome Size of the Strain Ikeda

Genome Announc. 2016 Aug 18;4(4):e00702-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00702-16.

Authors

Hsiao-Mei Liao¹, Chien-Chung Chao², Haiyan Lei¹, Bingjie Li¹, Shien Tsai¹, Guo-Chiuan Hung¹, Wei-Mei Ching³, Shyh-Ching Lo⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cellular and Gene Therapies, Office of Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies, Tissue Microbiology Laboratory, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
² Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
³ Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA wei-mei.m.ching.civ@mail.mil shyhching.lo@fda.hhs.gov.
⁴ Division of Cellular and Gene Therapies, Office of Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies, Tissue Microbiology Laboratory, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA wei-mei.m.ching.civ@mail.mil shyhching.lo@fda.hhs.gov.

Abstract

Orientia tsutsugamushi, an intracellular bacterium, belongs to the family Rickettsiaceae This study presents the draft genome sequence of strain Karp, with 2.0 Mb as the size of the completed genome. This nearly finished draft genome sequence was annotated with the RAST server and the contents compared to those of the other strains.

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