MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION OF A COLLECTION OF SPOTTED FEVER GROUP RICKETTSIAE OBTAINED FROM PATIENTS AND TICKS FROM RUSSIA

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Thirty-one rickettsial isolates from ticks or patients in North Asian tick typhus (NATT) foci from the Ural region to the Russian Far East were obtained at the Omsk Research Institute of Natural Foci Infections between 1954 and 2001. Using citrate synthase (gltA) and outermenbrane protein a (ompA) gene sequencing, we identified these isolates as Rickettsia sibirica sensu stricto (25 isolates), R. sibirica strain...

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