Rickettsia monacensis sp. nov., a spotted fever group rickettsia, from ticks (Ixodes ricinus) collected in a European city park

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 4559-4566

  Simser, Jason A ^a   Palmer, Ann T ^a   Fingerle, Volker ^a   Wilske, Bettina ^a   Kurtti, Timothy J ^a   Munderloh, Ulrike G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSAYS; GENES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PROTEINS;

MAMMALIAN CELL LINES;

MICROBIOLOGY;

CITRATE SYNTHASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN ROMPA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; NEW SPECIES; TAXONOMY; TICK;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRAIN L 929; CELL VACUOLE; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOPLASM; DERMACENTOR; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; IXODES RICINUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOPODIUM; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA MONACENSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VERO CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; CRICETINAE; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RICKETTSIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TICKS;

GERMANY;

ACARI; ARACHNIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRICETINAE; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR ANDERSONI; HEXAPODA; IXODES; IXODES RICINUS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDAE; MAMMALIA; PROKARYOTA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA MONACENSIS; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RICKETTSIALES; SPOTTED FEVER GROUP; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036714456     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.9.4559-4566.2002     Document Type: Article

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