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Volume 26, Number 9—September 2020
Research

Molecular Description of a Novel Orientia Species Causing Scrub Typhus in Chile

Katia AbarcaComments to Author , Constanza Martínez-Valdebenito1, Jenniffer Angulo1, Ju Jiang, Christina M. Farris, Allen L. Richards, Gerardo Acosta-Jamett, and Thomas WeitzelComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile (K. Abarca, C. Martínez-Valdebenito, J. Angulo); Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA (J. Jiang, C.M. Farris); Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (A.L. Richards); Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile (G. Acosta-Jamett); Clínica Alemana de Santiago, Facultad de Medicina Clínica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago (T. Weitzel)

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Table 3

Identity matrix of 47-kDa high temperature requirement A gene (htrA) showing percentage of pairwise identity of 950 nt consensus sequence of 17 Candidatus Orientia chiloensis cases from Chile with 18 strains of O. tsutsugamushi and Candidatus Orientia chuto

Sequences*† 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
1 Chiloensis
2 Chuto 85.2
3 Ikeda 88.5 83.7
4 Pkt5 88.3 83.5 99.7
5 Kp47 88.2 83.7 97.5 97.3
6 Br47 88.3 83.8 96.9 96.7 96.5
7 Boryong 88.4 83.7 97.2 97.0 96.8 99.4
8 CRF116 88.3 83.5 99.5 99.3 97.5 96.9 97.2
9 FPW2016 88.3 83.5 98.0 97.8 97.5 97.1 97.6 98.0
10 Kato 88.5 83.7 100 99.7 97.5 96.9 97.2 99.5 98.0
11 MAK243 88.8 84.2 98.5 98.3 98.0 97.5 97.8 98.5 98.0 98.5
12 CRF79 88.3 83.7 98.7 98.5 97.7 96.9 97.2 98.7 98.7 98.7 98.5
13 TM1320 88.6 83.4 98.4 98.2 97.0 97.4 97.7 98.2 97.8 98.4 97.9 97.6
14 UT221 88.8 84.1 98.5 98.3 96.9 97.1 97.3 98.5 97.4 98.5 98.2 98.0 97.5
15 UT418 88.4 84.1 98.5 98.3 97.5 96.9 97.2 98.5 97.5 98.5 98.2 98.4 97.4 98.4
16 Sido 88.7 83.6 96.9 96.7 96.0 96.7 97.2 96.7 97.3 96.9 97.2 96.7 97.2 96.9 96.3
17 CRF93 88.5 83.7 99.6 99.4 97.5 96.9 97.2 99.6 98.3 99.6 98.5 98.7 98.2 98.4 98.6 96.9
18 CRF136 88.3 83.5 99.5 99.3 97.5 96.9 97.2 100 98.0 99.5 98.5 98.7 98.2 98.5 98.5 96.7 99.6
19 TA763 88.6 83.8 99.1 98.9 97.8 97.1 97.6 99.1 98.3 99.1 98.7 98.9 97.7 98.5 98.7 97.0 99.0 99.1
20 TH1817
 88.3
 84.0
 98.5
 98.3
 97.4
 96.8
 97.1
 98.5
 97.4
 98.5
 98.0
 98.3
 97.3
 98.4
 99.7
 96.1
 98.4
 98.5
 98.7
*All sequences from strains of O. tsutsugamushi except 1 consensus sequence Candidatus Orientia chiloensis; 2 Orientia species; and 3 Candidatus Orientia chuto. 
†Numbers in the column headers (top row) indicate the same sequences as those associated with the same numbers in the first column.
GenBank accession numbers: 2, HM156063.1; 3, AP008981.1; 4, L11697.1; 5, L31934.1; 6, L31935.1; 7, AM494475.1; 8, HM156050.1; 9, HM156053.1; 10, LS398550.1; 11, HM595491.1; 12, HM156048.1; 13, HM156060.1; 14, HM156057.1; 15, HM156058.1; 16, HM156062.1; 17, HM156049.1; 18, HM156051.1; 19, HM595490.1; 20, HM156064.1.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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