Research Article
Identification of Five Novel Salmonella Typhi-Specific Genes as Markers for Diagnosis of Typhoid Fever Using Single-Gene Target PCR Assays
Table 3
Details of the 5 target genes and their description, antigenicity prediction, protein coverage, and identity with S. Paratyphi A.
| Number | Target genes (NCBI locus tag) | Gene description | GC content (%) | Antigenicity | Protein coverage with S. Paratyphi A (%) | Protein identity with S. Paratyphi A (%) |
| 1 | STY0307 | Hypothetical protein | 43 | 0.66 | 0 | 0 | 2 | STY0322 | Hypothetical protein | 29 | 0.37 | 21 | 33 | 3 | STY0326 | Conserved hypothetical protein | 37 | 0.79 | 0 | 0 | 4 | STY2020 | Putative bacteriophage protein | 42 | 0.66 | 0 | 0 | 5 | STY2021 | Putative bacteriophage protein | 42 | 0.27 | 0 | 0 |
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of the S. Typhiproteins predicted using SCRATCH Protein Prediction software [26].
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