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Citation: Kim G, Ha N-Y, Min C-K, Kim H-I, Yen

NTH, Lee K-H, et al. (2017) Diversification of

Orientia tsutsugamushi genotypes by intragenic

recombination and their potential expansion in

endemic areas. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 11(3):

e0005408. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0005408

Editor: Pamela L. C. Small, University of

Tennessee, UNITED STATES

Received: October 23, 2016

Accepted: February 13, 2017

Published: March 1, 2017

Copyright: © 2017 Kim et al. This is an open

access article distributed under the terms of the

Creative Commons Attribution License, which

permits unrestricted use, distribution, and

reproduction in any medium, provided the original

author and source are credited.

Data Availability Statement: All relevant data are

within the paper and its Supporting Information

files.

Funding: This study was supported by grants from

the Korea Healthcare Technology R&D Project,

Ministry for Health, Welfare & Family Affairs

(HI14C0365). GK, NYH, CKM, HIK, and NTHY

received a scholarship from the BK21-plus

education program provided by the National

Research Foundation of Korea. The funders had no

role in study design, data collection, and analysis,

decision to publish, or preparation of the

manuscript.

Competing interests: The authors have declared

that no competing interests exist.

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