Flinders Island Spotted Fever Rickettsioses Caused by “marmionii” Strain of Rickettsia honei, Eastern Australia
Nathan B. Unsworth*, John Stenos*
, Stephen R. Graves*, Antony G. Faa†, G. Erika Cox‡, John R. Dyer§, Craig S. Boutlis¶, Amanda M. Lane#, Matthew D. Shaw#, Jennifer Robson**, and Michael D. Nissen††
Author affiliations: *Australian Rickettsial Reference Laboratory, Geelong, Victoria, Australia; †Warwick Hospital (Southern Downs Health Services District), Warwick, Queensland, Australia; ‡Launceston General Hospital, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia; §Fremantle Hospital, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia; ¶Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia; #University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; **Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; ††Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Figure. Phylogenetic trees obtained by a neighbor-joining analysis of the 16s RNA, gltA, 17-kDa, ompA, and Sca4 antigen genes. Bootstrap values from 100 analyses are shown at the node of each branch.
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