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Note: Rickettsia slovaca sp. nov., a member of the spotted fever group rickettsiae

ZUZANA SEKEYOVA^1,2, VÉRONIQUE ROUX¹, WENBIN XU¹, JOSEF EHÁEK² and DIDIER RAOULT^1,3

¹Unité des Rickettsies, Faculté de Médecine, CNRS UPRES-A 6020, 13385 Marseille, France
²Institute of Virology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravské cesta 9, 842 46 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

³Tel: +33 4 91 32 43 75. Fax: +33 4 91 38 77 72. e-mail: Didier.Raoult{at}medecine.univ-mrs.fr

ABSTRACT

The name Rickettsia slovaca sp. nov. (type strain is strain B) is proposed for a member of the spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiae which was isolated from Dermacentor marginatus ticks in Slovakia in 1968, and was recently implicated in human febrile illness. This rickettsia can be phenotypically distinguished from other SFG rickettsiae by microimmunofluorescence serotyping, SDS-PAGE, Western blotting and mAbs. Genotypic differences between R. slovaca and the other SFG representatives can be demonstrated by PCR-RFLP analysis, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and sequencing of 16S rRNA, gltA and ompA genes.

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