Intraspecies Diversity of Rickettsia conorii

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 199, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1097-1098

  Fournier, Pierre Edouard ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LETTER; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA CONORII CASPIA; RICKETTSIA CONORII CONORII; RICKETTSIA CONORII INDICA; RICKETTSIA CONORII ISRAELENSIS; SEROTYPE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBSPECIES; TAXONOMY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION;

GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS;

EID: 65549118334     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597211     Document Type: Letter

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