title: Genome sequence of Rickettsia australis, the agent of Queensland tick typhus.
abstract: Rickettsia australis strain Phillips(T) was isolated in Queensland, Australia, in 1950. It is the tick-borne agent of Queensland tick typhus, a disease endemic in Australia. The 1.29-Mb genome sequence of this bacterium is highly similar to that of Rickettsia akari but contains two plasmids.
authors.affiliation: Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée-Infection, UMR CNRS 7278-IRD 198, Faculté de Médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.forename: Khalid
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: El Karkouri
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Robert
authors.forename: Didier
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Raoult
authors.forename: Pierre-Edouard
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Fournier
mesh_terms: D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics*; D019353:Endemic Diseases; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010957:Plasmids; D011793:Queensland / Q000453:epidemiology; D012281:Rickettsia / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012282:Rickettsia Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D026801:Synteny
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial