Rickettsia sibirica Isolation from a Patient and Detection in Ticks, Portugal

We report the first isolation of Rickettsia sibirica (strain mongolotimonae) from the blood of a patient and detection by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of the rickettsia in a Rhipicephalus pusillus tick collected from a dead mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon) in the Alentejo region, Portugal. We descr...

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Autores principales: de Sousa, Rita, Barata, Conceição, Vitorino, Liliana, Santos-Silva, Margarida, Carrapato, Carlos, Torgal, Jorge, Walker, David, Bacellar, Fátima
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2006
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3291052/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16836827
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1207.051494
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Sumario:We report the first isolation of Rickettsia sibirica (strain mongolotimonae) from the blood of a patient and detection by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of the rickettsia in a Rhipicephalus pusillus tick collected from a dead mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon) in the Alentejo region, Portugal. We describe also the first PCR detection of a new Rickettsia strain that is related to R. sibirica.

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