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Genotypic Characterization of Rickettsia bellii Reveals Distinct Lineages in the United States and South America.
BioMed research international - 1 Jan 2018
Krawczak Felipe S, Labruna Marcelo B, Hecht Joy A, Paddock Christopher D, Karpathy Sandor E
Abstract excerpt
The bacterium Rickettsia bellii belongs to a basal group of rickettsiae that diverged prior to the pathogenic spotted fever group and typhus group Rickettsia species. Despite a diverse representation of R. bellii across more than 25 species of hard and soft ticks in the American continent, phylogeographical relationships among strains of this basal group-Rickettsia species are unknown; the work described here...
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