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.
MeSH terms
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DNA, Bacterial / chemistry*
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DNA, Bacterial / genetics*
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Endemic Diseases
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Genome, Bacterial*
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Plasmids
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Queensland / epidemiology
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Rickettsia / genetics*
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Rickettsia / isolation & purification
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Rickettsia Infections / epidemiology
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Rickettsia Infections / microbiology
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Sequence Analysis, DNA*
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Synteny