Rickettsia hoogstraalii sp. nov., isolated from hardand soft-bodied ticks

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 977-984

  Duh, Darja ^a   Punda Polic, Volga ^b   Avsic Zupanc, Tatjana ^a   Bouyer, Donald ^c   Walker, David H ^c   Popov, Vsevolod L ^c   Jelovsek, Mateja ^a   Gracner, Maja ^a   Trilar, Tomi ^d   Bradaric, Nikola ^b   Kurtti, Timothy J ^e   Strus, Jasna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^d SLOVENIAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Slovenia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIA HOOGSTRAALII; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TICK; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VERO CELL;

ANIMALS; ARGASIDAE; ARTHROPODS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; GENOTYPE; IXODIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VERO CELLS;

ARGASIDAE; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAPRA HIRCUS; CARIOS CAPENSIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS SULCATA; IXODIDA; NEGIBACTERIA; OVIS ARIES; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIACEAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77950597542     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.011049-0     Document Type: Article

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