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Volume 11, Number 2—February 2005
Research

Spotted Fever Group and Typhus Group Rickettsioses in Humans, South Korea

Yeon-Joo Choi*1, Won-Jong Jang1*, Jong-Hyun Kim*, Ji-Sun Ryu*, Seung-Hyun Lee*, Kyung-Hee Park*, Hyung-Suk Paik†, Young-Sang Koh‡, Myung-Sik Choi§, and Ik-Sang Kim§Comments to Author 

Author affiliations: *Konkuk University, Choongbuk, Republic of Korea; †Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea; ‡Cheju National University College of Medicine, Jeju, Republic of Korea; §Seoul National University College of Medicine and Institute of Endemic Disease, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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Table 2

Similarity matrix between partial rompB gene sequence of various rickettsial strains and nested polymerase chain reaction (H1 products)

1* 2 3 4 5 6 7 H1† H3 H5 H10 H20 H22
1* –
2 93.79 –
3 96.05 94.92 –
4 91.81 96.89 92.94 –
5 92.94 98.59 94.07 96.61 –
6 74.01 73.16 74.29 72.32 73.45 –
7 72.03 70.9 72.32 70.34 71.19 93.22 –
H1† 93.79‡ 100 94.92 96.89 98.59 73.16 70.9 –
H3 93.5 99.72 94.63 96.61 98.31 72.88 70.62 99.72 –
H5 100 93.79 96.05 91.81 92.94 74.01 72.03 93.79 93.5 –
H10 91.81 96.89 92.94 100 96.61 72.32 70.34 96.89 96.61 91.81 –
H20 92.66 98.87 93.79 96.33 97.46 72.6 70.34 98.87 98.59 92.66 96.33 –
H22 95.76 94.63 99.44 92.66 93.79 74.01 72.03 94.63 94.35 95.76 92.66 93.5 –

*1, partial rompB of Rickettsia akari (AF123707), 2; R. conorii (AF123721); 3, R. felis (AF182279); 4, R. japonica (AB003681); 5, R. sibirica (AF12322); 6, R. prowazekii (AF211820); 7, R. typhi (L04661).
†H, H1 products amplified from patient sera.
‡The similarity values (%) on the lower left are the levels of similarity between partial rompB gene sequences.

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1Y.-J. Choi and W.-J. Jang contributed equally to this work.

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