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Volume 27, Number 5—May 2021
Research Letter

Severe Case of Rickettsiosis Identified by Metagenomic Sequencing, China

Zhongqiu Teng1, Yan Shi1, Yao Peng1, Huayi Zhang, Xia Luo, Xinchang Lun, Lianxu Xia, Yuanhai You, Zhenpeng Li, Wen Zhang, Ying Zhang, Shicun Dong, Wentao Guo, Biao Kan, Bo Pang, Jianguo Xu, and Aiping QinComments to Author 
Author affiliations: National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China (Z. Teng, Y. Peng, X. Luo, X. Lun, L. Xia, Y. You, Z. Li, W. Zhang, B. Kan, B. Pang, J. Xu, A. Qin); Qinghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Xining, China (Y. Shi, H. Zhang, S. Dong); Baotou Medical College, Baotou, China (Y. Zhang); Institute of Endemic Diseases of Qinghai, Xining (W. Guo)

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Table

Homology of 266 identified rickettsial unique reads shared by Rickettsia species, China*

% Identity No. reads
BJ-90 R. sibirica 246† HA-91‡ R. heilongjiangensis‡
100 226 213 153 48
99 25 35 76 65
98 6 9 19 46
1–97 9 9 17 102
0 0 0 1 5

*BJ-90, R. sibirica subsp. sibirica BJ-90; HA-91, R. sibirica subsp. mongolitimonae HA-91.
†No significant difference (p = 0.35) compared with BJ-90 by Wilcoxon ranked nonparametric test.
‡Significant difference (p<0.05) compared with BJ-90 by Wilcoxon ranked nonparametric test.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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