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From: Proposal to create subspecies of Rickettsia conorii based on multi-locus sequence typing and an emended description of Rickettsia conorii

Figure 2

A = Unrooted phylogenetic trees derived from the comparison of sequences of the 16S rDNA, glt A, omp A, omp B and sca 4 genes using the Neighbor Joining method (A). Bootstraps values are indicated at the nodes of the phylogenetic tree. The scale bars represent the percentage of nucleotide differences. RC = R. conorii; ITTR = Indian tick typhus rickettsia; AFRA = AFR isolate A-167; AFRC = AFR isolate Chad; ISFR = Israeli spotted fever rickettsia. B = Unrooted phylogenetic trees derived from the comparison of concatenated sequences of the dks A / xer C, mpp A / pur C, and rpm E / tRNA-fMet intergenic spacers using the Neighbor Joining method (B). Bootstraps values are indicated at the nodes of the phylogenetic tree. The scale bars represent the percentage of nucleotide differences. RC = R. conorii; ITTR = Indian tick typhus rickettsia; AFRA = AFR isolate A-167; AFRC = AFR isolate Chad; ISFR = Israeli spotted fever rickettsia. C = Taxonomic dendrogram of rickettsiae closely related to Rickettsia conorii obtained by using the unweighted pair group method based on reactivity of mouse antisera to all tested rickettsiae. RC = R. conorii; ITTR = Indian tick typhus rickettsia; AFRA = AFR isolate A-167; AFRC = AFR isolate Chad; ISFR = Israeli spotted fever rickettsia.

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