Table 3.

Pairwise nucleotide sequence similarities among members of the R. conorii complex

	% Similarity
Rickettsia and gene	ITTR	AFR isolate A-167	ISFR
R. conorii
16S rDNA	100	99.9	99.8
gltA	100	99.5	99.3
ompA	99.8	98.3	98.3
ompB	99.8	98.7	98.6
sca4	99.9	99.4	99.3
ITTR
16S rDNA		99.9	99.8
gltA		99.5	99.3
ompA		98.1	98.1
ompB		98.6	98.5
sca4		99.3	99.2
AFR isolate A-167
16S rDNA			99.8
gltA			99.7
ompA			98.6
ompB			99.4
sca4			99.7