Detection and identification of a novel spotted fever group Rickettsia in western Australia

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1078, Issue , 2006, Pages 197-199

  Owen, Helen ^a   Unsworth, Nathan ^b   Stenos, John ^b   Robertson, Ian ^a   Clark, Phillip ^a   Fenwick, Stan ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GEELONG HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Candidatus Rickettsia gravesii; Spotted fever group rickettsiae; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURE MEDIUM; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TICK;

CANDIDATUS RICKETTSIA GRAVESII; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIACEAE;

EID: 33845700348     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1374.038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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