T number | T00705 |
Org_code | ott |
Name | Orientia tsutsugamushi Ikeda |
Annotation | yes |
Taxonomy | TAX: 334380 |
Lineage | Bacteria; Pseudomonadota; Alphaproteobacteria; Rickettsiales; Rickettsiaceae; Rickettsieae; Orientia |
Brite | KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611] |
Data source | GenBank (Assembly: GCA_000010205.1 Complete Genome) BioProject: 18983 |
Keywords | Human pathogen |
Disease | H00324 Scrub typhus |
Comment | Obligate intracellular parasite. Causative agent of scrub typhus. Belongs to the Japanese Gilliam serotype and is highly virulent in mice. Isolated from a patient in 1979 in Niigata Prefecture, Japan.
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Chromosome | Circular |
Sequence | GB: AP008981 |
Length | 2008987 |
Statistics | Number of nucleotides: 2008987 Number of protein genes: 1967 Number of RNA genes: 38
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Created | 2008 |
Reference | PMID: 18508905 |
Authors | Nakayama K, Yamashita A, Kurokawa K, Morimoto T, Ogawa M, Fukuhara M, Urakami H, Ohnishi M, Uchiyama I, Ogura Y, et al. |
Title | The Whole-genome sequencing of the obligate intracellular bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi revealed massive gene amplification during reductive genome evolution. |
Journal | DNA Res 15:185-99 (2008) DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dsn011 |