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Louse- and flea-borne rickettsioses: biological and genomic analyses

In contrast to 15 or more validated and/or proposed tick-borne spotted fever group species, only three named medically important rickettsial species are associated with insects. These insect-borne rickettsiae are comprised of two highly pathogenic species, Rickettsia prowazekii (the agent of epidemi...

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Autores principales: Gillespie, Joseph J., Ammerman, Nicole C., Beier-Sexton, Magda, Sobral, Bruno S., Azad, Abdu F.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EDP Sciences 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2695025/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19036234
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/vetres:2008050