High rates of homologous recombination in the mite endosymbiont and opportunistic human pathogen Orientia tsutsugamushi.

• Main Authors: Piengchan Sonthayanon (Author), Sharon J Peacock (Author), Wirongrong Chierakul (Author), Vanaporn Wuthiekanun (Author), Stuart D Blacksell (Author), Mathew T G Holden (Author), Stephen D Bentley (Author), Edward J Feil (Author), Nicholas P J Day (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2010-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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Orientia tsutsugamushi is an intracellular alpha-proteobacterium which resides in trombiculid mites, and is the causative agent of scrub typhus in East Asia. The genome sequence of this species has revealed an unprecedented number of repeat sequences, most notably of the genes encoding the conjugati...