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- Title
Diagnostic Assay for Rickettsia japonica.
- Authors
Hanaoka, Nozomu; Matsutani, Minenosuke; Kawabata, Hiroki; Yamamoto, Seigo; Fujita, Hiromi; Sakata, Akiko; Azuma, Yoshinao; Ogawa, Motohiko; Takano, Ai; Watanabe, Haruo; Kishimoto, Toshio; Shirai, Mutsunori; Kurane, Ichiro; Ando, Shuji
- 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.
- Subjects
ASIA; RICKETTSIAS; GENOMES; ANTI-infective agents; DNA; NUCLEOTIDE sequence
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009, Vol 15, Issue 12, p1994
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3201/eid1512.090252