| Entry | T00705 |
| Org code | ott |
| Name | Orientia tsutsugamushi Ikeda |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX: 334380 |
| Lineage | Bacteria; Pseudomonadati; Pseudomonadota; Alphaproteobacteria; Rickettsiales; Rickettsiaceae; Rickettsieae; Orientia; Orientia tsutsugamushi |
| 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 (GB: AP008981) |
| Statistics | 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 |
Orientia tsutsugamushi Ikeda