Rickettsia raoultii sp. nov., a spotted fever group rickettsia associated with Dermacentor ticks in Europe and Russia

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1635-1639

  Mediannikov, Oleg ^a,b   Matsumoto, Kotaro ^a   Samoylenko, Irina ^c   Drancourt, Michel ^a   Roux, Véronique ^a   Rydkina, Elena ^d   Davoust, Bernard ^e   Tarasevich, Irina ^b   Brouqui, Philippe ^a   Fournier, Pierre Edouard ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b GAMALEYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c Omsk Research Institute of Natural Foci Infections   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^e Direction Regionale du Service de Sante des Armees de Toulon   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIFAMPICIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DERMACENTOR; EUROPE; FRANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA RAOULTII; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RICKETTSIOSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS; DERMACENTOR SILVARUM; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA;

ANIMALS; DERMACENTOR; EUROPE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; RUSSIA;

EID: 51349156391     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.64952-0     Document Type: Article

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