Genomic insights into emerging South Korean uncommon Orientia tsutsugamushi strains and their value as new surveillance resources.
OBJECTIVES Orientia tsutsugamushi, the causative agent of scrub typhus, shows strain diversity and a highly repetitive genome. In South Korea, strain Boryong predominates, whereas non-Boryong strains remain under-characterized at the whole-genome level. This study performed whole-genome sequencing and comparative genom...