Orientia tsutsugamushi (ATCC VR-150, Karp)

Name: Orientia tsutsugamushi (ATCC VR-150, Karp)
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BacDive ID 169041

Type strain

Strain Designation Karp

Culture col. no. ATCC VR-150 Karp

NCBI tax ID(s) 784

Orientia tsutsugamushi Karp is a bacterium of the family Rickettsiaceae.

genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

Culture Collection Numbers

ATCC VR-150 Karp

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:46:31

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rickettsiales

Family Rickettsiaceae

Genus Orientia

Species Orientia tsutsugamushi

Full scientific name Orientia tsutsugamushi (Hayashi 1920) Tamura et al. 1995

Synonyms (2)

"Theileria tsutsugamushi"
Rickettsia tsutsugamushi

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		92.028
125438		96.567

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence D38623 (>99% sequence identity) for Orientia tsutsugamushi subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	63
Soil Samples	20
Animal Samples	54
Plant Samples	8
Total Samples	145

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
20215	3	Risk group

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	Karp assembly for Orientia tsutsugamushi	complete	GCA_900327275	784.19	2841071530	784	98.13
66792	ASM2293608v1 assembly for Orientia tsutsugamushi str. Karp	complete	GCA_022936085	1359185.20	8118857400	1359185	60.91
66792	O_tsutsugamushi_Karp_2M assembly for Orientia tsutsugamushi str. Karp	contig	GCA_001654785	784.4		1359185	56.81
66792	ASM96458v1 assembly for Orientia tsutsugamushi str. Karp	contig	GCA_000964585	1359185.3	2627854151	1359185	25.52

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20215	Rickettsia tsutsugamushi (strain Karp) gene for 16S rRNA	D38623	1459		1359185

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM2293608v1 assembly for Orientia tsutsugamushi str. Karp
NCBI: GCA_022936085

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	92.03	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	75.24	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	41.00	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	64.75	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Orientia tsutsugamushi str. Karp Karp
NCBI: GCA_022936085.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	83.42	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	79.37	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	62.72	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	96.57	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	92.92	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	86.94	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	High In Vitro Infectivity of a Doxycycline-Insensitive Strain of Orientia tsutsugamushi.	Kim MS, Baek JH, Lee JS, Chung MH, Lee SM, Kang JS.	Infect Chemother	10.3947/ic.2013.45.4.431	2013
Genetics	Origins, Importance and Genetic Stability of the Prototype Strains Gilliam, Karp and Kato of Orientia tsutsugamushi.	Kelly DJ, Fuerst PA, Richards AL.	Trop Med Infect Dis	10.3390/tropicalmed4020075	2019
Pathogenicity	Improved antibiotic susceptibility test of Orientia tsutsugamushi by flow cytometry using monoclonal antibody.	Kim MJ, Kim MK, Kang JS.	J Korean Med Sci	10.3346/jkms.2007.22.1.1	2007
	Usefulness of eschar PCR for diagnosis of scrub typhus.	Lee SH, Kim DM, Cho YS, Yoon SH, Shim SK.	J Clin Microbiol	10.1128/jcm.44.3.1169-1171.2006	2006
	Expression and refolding of truncated recombinant major outer membrane protein antigen (r56) of Orientia tsutsugamushi and its use in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays.	Ching WM, Wang H, Eamsila C, Kelly DJ, Dasch GA.	Clin Diagn Lab Immunol	10.1128/cdli.5.4.519-526.1998	1998
Phylogeny	Serological classification by monoclonal antibodies of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi isolated in Korea.	Chang WH, Kang JS, Lee WK, Choi MS, Lee JH.	J Clin Microbiol	10.1128/jcm.28.4.685-688.1990	1990

References

#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .

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Orientia tsutsugamushi (ATCC VR-150, Karp)

Name and taxonomic classification

Culture Collection Numbers

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

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16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

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