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Case Reports
. 2007 Sep;13(9):1405-7.
doi: 10.3201/eid1309.060186.

Rickettsia monacensis and human disease, Spain

Isabel Jado  1 , José A Oteo, Mikel Aldámiz, Horacio Gil, Raquel Escudero, Valvanera Ibarra, Joseba Portu, Aranzazu Portillo, María J Lezaun, Cristina García-Amil, Isabel Rodríguez-Moreno, Pedro Anda
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Rickettsia monacensis and human disease, Spain

Isabel Jado et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2007 Sep.

Abstract

We identified Rickettsia monacensis as a cause of acute tickborne rickettsiosis in 2 humans. Its pathogenic role was assessed by culture and detection of the organism in patients' blood samples. This finding increases the number of recognized human rickettsial pathogens and expands the known geographic distribution of Mediterranean spotted fever-like cases.

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Neighbor-joining phylogenetic analysis based on ompA (panel A) and gltA (panel B). Mega 3 software (www.megasoftware.net) was used for the calculation of pairwise distances. Numbers near each node represent the bootstrap values. The isolate from patient 1 is shown in boldface. GenBank accession no. for each sequence is in parentheses.
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