Rickettsia sibirica isolation from a patient and detection in ticks, Portugal.

ABSTRACT: 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.

SUBMITTER: de Sousa R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3291052 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature