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TABLE 7.

Homology comparison of Rickettsia sp. ompA gene fragment (532-bp) sequences

Sequence	% Identity or no. of nucleotide differences^a
Sequence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
1		99.4	94.7	94.5	94.3	93.9	93.8	93.8	93.8	93.8	93.8	93.8	93.2	92.6	92.4
2	3		94.5	94.3	93.8	93.4	93.6	93.2	93.6	93.2	93.2	93.2	92.6	92.0	91.8
3	26	28		99.8	94.5	94.7	97.3	93.9	93.9	94.1	94.3	93.8	94.1	93.0	92.2
4	27	29	1		94.3	94.5	97.1	93.8	93.8	93.9	93.9	93.6	93.9	92.8	92.0
5	28	32	28	28		98.6	93.6	97.9	97.5	98.0	98.2	98.0	96.9	93.4	93.2
6	28	34	27	27	6		93.8	97.7	98.2	98.6	98.8	98.2	96.7	93.4	93.2
7	28	33	14	15	33	32		93.4	93.0	93.2	93.4	92.8	93.2	92.2	91.4
8	32	35	31	32	11	12	34		96.5	97.5	97.7	97.1	96.3	93.2	93.0
9	32	33	31	31	13	9	35	18		97.5	98.0	96.9	95.5	92.6	92.4
10	32	35	29	31	10	7	35	11	12		99.0	97.3	96.5	93.2	93.0
11	32	35	28	30	9	6	33	12	9	5		97.5	96.7	93.4	93.2
12	32	35	32	33	10	9	37	15	15	13	13		96.5	92.8	92.6
13	32	38	29	31	16	17	35	19	23	18	16	18		92.4	92.2
14	40	41	35	37	34	34	38	35	37	35	34	37	39		98.8
15	40	42	39	41	35	35	43	36	38	36	35	38	41	6

Percentages of identity between sequences of ompA gene fragments are shown in the upper matrix. The lower matrix shows the numbers of nucleotide differences. The following sequences were used: 1, Rickettsia sp. strain 71-8 from Korea; 2, AF169629 (Rickettsia sp. from China); 3, AF179364 (Rickettsia hulinii from France); 4, AF179362 (Rickettsia heilongjiangii from France); 5, U43808 (Rickettsia slovaca from France); 6, U43790 (Rickettsia africae from France); 7, D28766 (Rickettsia japonica from Japan); 8, AY197564 (Israeli tick typhus rickettsia from Italy); 9, U43802 (Rickettsia parkeri from France); 10, U43807 (Rickettsia sibirica from France); 11, U43796 (Rickettsia mongolotimonae from France); 12, AF018075 (Rickettsia honei from the United States); 13, U55822 (Rickettsia rickettsii from the United States); 14, U43803 (Rickettsia rhipicephali from France); 15, U43799 (Rickettsia massiliae from France); 16, AY062007 (Rickettsia amblyommii from the United States); 17, U43800 (Rickettsia aeschlimannii from France).