Determination of the Nucleotide Sequences of Heat Shock Operon groESLand the Citrate Synthase Gene (gltA) of Anaplasma(Ehrlichia) platysfor Phylogenetic and Diagnostic Studies

ABSTRACTThe 1,670-bp nucleotide sequence of the heat shock operon groESLand the 1,236-bp sequence of the citrate synthase gene (gltA) of Anaplasma(Ehrlichia) platyswere determined. The topology of the groEL- and gltA-based phylogenetic tree was similar to that derived from 16S rRNA gene analyses with distances. Both groESL- and gltA-based PCRs specific to A. platyswere also developed based upon the alignment data.