Rickettsia slovaca sp. nov., a member of the spotted fever group rickettsiae

International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1455-1462

  Sekeyová, Zuzana ^a,b   Roux, Véronique ^a   Xu, Wenbin ^a   Řeháček, Josef ^b   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Rickettsia slovaca; Spotted fever group rickettsiae; Taxonomic and phylogenetic analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CELL; COMPLEMENT FIXATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RICKETTSIA; SLOVAKIA; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; RICKETTSIA SLOVACA;

EID: 0031751667     PISSN: 00207713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00207713-48-4-1455     Document Type: Article

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