TABLE 4.

Comparison of the Shasta snail-1 and Shasta snail-2 partial groESL gene sequences with the partial groESL gene sequences of other rickettsiae

Organism	% Identity toa:
	Shasta snail-1 sequence	Shasta snail-2 sequence
SRC agent	100.00	99.81
E. risticii	98.48	98.28
E. sennetsu	96.39	96.20
E. chaffeensis	65.59	65.77
E. canis	64.83	64.64
C. ruminantium	64.26	64.07

^aValues were derived from a BLAST search.