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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Rickettsia prowazekii"”.
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Rickettsia prowazekii and its ‘Junk DNA’: The Identification and Characterization of Small RNAs
… Mountain spotted fever and epidemic typhus, Rickettsia are obligate intracellular Gram-negative pathogenic bacteria. Genomic sequencing determined that ~24% of the Rickettsia prowazekii genome was noncoding DNA due to genomic reduction. Regions of bacterial noncoding DNA were found to encode …
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Identification of protective rickettsial antigens for vaccine development
The genus Rickettsia contains some of the most lethal pathogens known to man, including Rickettsia prowazekii, a select agent that could be used as a biological weapon. Although Rickettsia spp. cause important diseases of public health importance and there is a need to develop countermeasures for …