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SUBMITTER: de Sousa R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3291052 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Emerging infectious diseases 20060701 7
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. ...[more]