Proposal to create subspecies of Rickettsia sibirica and an emended description of Rickettsia sibirica

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1078, Issue , 2006, Pages 597-606

  Fournier, Pierre Edouard ^a   Zhu, Yong ^a   Yu, Xuejie ^b   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Rickettsia siberica; Subspecies; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

SPACER DNA;

AMPLICON; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MOUSE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTISPACER TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RICKETTSIA SIBIRICA; SEROTYPE; SUBSPECIES; TAXONOMY; TICK;

ACARI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA MONGOLOTIMONAE; RICKETTSIA SIBIRICA; RICKETTSIACEAE;

EID: 33845707803     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1374.120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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