New Rickettsiae in ticks collected in territories of the former Soviet Union

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 811-814

  Rydkina, Elena ^a,b   Roux, Véronique ^a   Fetisova, Natalia ^b   Rudakov, Nikolai ^c   Gafarova, Mouniver ^d   Tarasevich, Irina ^b   Raoult, Didier ^a,b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c Res Inst of Endemic Infect Dis   (Russian Federation)

^d V I VERNADSKY CRIMEAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DERMACENTOR; FEVER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEADACHE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RASH; RICKETTSIA; TICK BORNE DISEASE; USSR;

EID: 0033372853     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0506.990612     Document Type: Article

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