Diagnostic assay for Rickettsia japonica.

ABSTRACT: We developed a specific and rapid detection system for Rickettsia japonica and R. heilongjiangensis, the causative agents of spotted fever, using a TaqMan minor groove binder probe for a particular open reading frame (ORF) identified by the R. japonica genome project. The target ORF was present only in R. japonica-related strains.

SUBMITTER: Hanaoka N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3044520 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature