Rickettsia sibirica mongolitimonae Infection, Turkey, 2016.

ABSTRACT: In 2016, Rickettsia sibirica mongolitimonae was diagnosed for a man in Turkey. He had been bitten by a Hyalomma marginatum tick, from which PCR detected rickettsial DNA. Sequence analysis of the DNA identified R. sibirica mongolitimonae. Immunofluorescence assay of patient serum indicated R. conorii, which cross-reacts. PCR is recommended for rickettsiosis diagnoses.

SUBMITTER: Kuscu F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5512508 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature