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Rickettsia asiatica sp. nov., isolated in Japan

Hiromi Fujita^1,, Pierre-Edouard Fournier^2,, Nobuhiro Takada³, Takehiro Saito⁴ and Didier Raoult²

¹ Ohara Research Laboratory, Ohara General Hospital, Fukushima 960-0195, Japan
² Unité des rickettsies, IFR 48, CNRS UMR 6020, Faculté de médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille cedex 05, France
³ Department of Pathological Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Matsuoka, Fukui 910-1193, Japan
⁴ Aizawa Hospital, 2-5-1 Honjo, Matsumoto 390-8510, Japan

Correspondence
Pierre-Edouard Fournier
pierre-edouard.fournier{at}medecine.univ-mrs.fr

The characterization of a novel Rickettsia species, first isolated from Ixodes ovatus ticks in Japan in 1993, is described for which the name Rickettsia asiatica sp. nov. is proposed. Using multilocus sequence comparison, five rickettsial isolates from I. ovatus collected at various locations in Japan were found to be identical but belonged to a novel species. Serotyping also demonstrated this rickettsia to be distinct from previously described Rickettsia species. The type strain of Rickettsia asiatica sp. nov. is IO-1^T (=CSUR R2^T). Following discussions held at the meeting of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP) and its Judicial Commission (JC) in San Francisco, 2005, and in anticipation of the published minutes of the JC and ICSP, a committee consisting of the chairman of the ICSP, the chairman of the Judicial Commission of the ICSP and the Editor of the IJSEM has granted an exception in this case to the Rule governing the deposit of type material in two different collections in two different countries.

These authors contributed equally to this work.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the 16S rRNA, gltA, ompB and sca4 gene sequences of strain IO-1^T are AF394906, AF394901, DQ110870 and DQ110869, respectively.

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