Article
Astrakhan fever rickettsiae: antigenic and genotypic analysis of isolates obtained from human and Rhipicephalus pumilio ticks.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene - 1 Nov 1994
Eremeeva M E, Beati L, Makarova V A, Fetisova N F, Tarasevich I V, Balayeva N M, Raoult D
Abstract excerpt
Two spotted fever group rickettsia strains, A-108 and A-167, were isolated from the hemolymph of Rhipicephalus pumilio ticks collected in the Astrakhan region of Russia, which is area endemic for Astrakhan fever. These tick isolates were compared with a strain isolated from a patient suffering fr...
Topics
- Animals
- Arachnid Vectors
- Bacterial Proteins
- Boutonneuse Fever
- Chlorocebus aethiops
- DNA, Bacterial
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
- Female
- Genotype
- Humans
- Immunoblotting
- Male
- Mice
- Microscopy, Electron
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Russia