Genomic sequencing of Orientia tsutsugamushi strain Karp, an assembly comparable to the genome size of the strain Ikeda

Abstract

Orientia tsutsugamushi, an intracellular bacterium, belongs to the family Rickettsiaceae. This study presents the draft genome sequence of strain Karp, with 2.0 Mb as the size of the completed genome. This nearly finished draft genome sequence was annotated with the RAST server and the contents compared to those of the other strains.