Article
Genotypic identification of an undescribed spotted fever group rickettsia in Ixodes ricinus from southwestern Spain.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene - 1 May 1998
Márquez F J, Muniain M A, Soriguer R C, Izquierdo G, Rodríguez-Baño J, Borobio M V
Abstract excerpt
An undescribed rickettsia was directly analyzed with specific rickettsial molecular biology tools on Ixodes ricinus L. collected in different localities of the province of Cadiz (southwestern Spain). On the basis of the results of the citrate synthase (glta) gene, 190 kD-outer membrane protein (r...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genotype
- Glutamate Synthase
- Ixodes
- Molecular Sequence Data
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
- Rickettsia
- Rickettsia Infections
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Spain