Long-read whole genome sequencing and comparative analysis of six strains of the human pathogen Orientia tsutsugamushi.

• Main Authors: Elizabeth M Batty (Author), Suwittra Chaemchuen (Author), Stuart Blacksell (Author), Allen L Richards (Author), Daniel Paris (Author), Rory Bowden (Author), Caroline Chan (Author), Ramkumar Lachumanan (Author), Nicholas Day (Author), Peter Donnelly (Author), Swaine Chen (Author), Jeanne Salje (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>Orientia tsutsugamushi is a clinically important but neglected obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen of the Rickettsiaceae family that causes the potentially life-threatening human disease scrub typhus. In contrast to the genome reduction seen in many obligate intr...