Acute Tick-borne Rickettsiosis Caused by Rickettsia heilongjiangensis in the Russian Far East

Acute Tick-borne Rickettsiosis Caused by Rickettsia heilongjiangensis in the Russian Far East

An acute tick-borne rickettsiosis caused by Rickettsia heilongjiangensis was diagnosed in 13 patients from the Russian Far East in 2002. We amplified and sequenced four portions of three rickettsial genes from the patients' skin biopsy results and blood samples and showed that the amplified ric...

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Main Authors: Oleg Y. Mediannikov, Yuri Sidelnikov, Leonid Ivanov, Eugenia Mokretsova, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Irina Tarasevich, Didier Raoult
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2004-05-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Rickettsia heilongjiangensis
Rickettsiaceae
spotted fever group rickettsiae
tick-borne diseases
Russia
Siberia
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/10/5/03-0437_article

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