Mediannikov Oleg, Matsumoto Kotaro, Samoylenko Irina, Drancourt Michel, Roux Véronique, Rydkina Elena, Davoust Bernard, Tarasevich Irina, Brouqui Philippe, Fournier Pierre-Edouard
Unité des Rickettsies, CNRS UMR6020, IFR 48, Université de la Méditerranée, Faculté de Médecine, 27 Blvd Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille cedex 5, France.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2008 Jul;58(Pt 7):1635-9. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.64952-0.
We describe the characterization of a novel Rickettsia species cultivated from Dermacentor ticks collected in Russia and France, for which we propose the name Rickettsia raoultii sp. nov. Using multigene sequencing, we demonstrated that five rickettsial isolates from Dermacentor silvarum, Dermacentor reticulatus, Dermacentor marginatus and Dermacentor nuttalli ticks were classified within this novel spotted fever rickettsia species. This rickettsia also exhibited a serotype distinct from previously described Rickettsia species. The type strain of Rickettsia raoultii sp. nov. is strain Khabarovsk(T) (=CSUR R3(T) =ATCC VR-1596(T)).
我们描述了从俄罗斯和法国采集的革蜱中培养出的一种新型立克次体物种的特征,我们将其命名为拉乌尔立克次体(Rickettsia raoultii)新种。通过多基因测序,我们证明了来自森林革蜱、网纹革蜱、边缘革蜱和纳氏革蜱的五株立克次体分离株属于这一新型斑点热立克次体物种。这种立克次体还表现出与先前描述的立克次体物种不同的血清型。拉乌尔立克次体新种的模式菌株是哈巴罗夫斯克菌株(Khabarovsk(T))(=CSUR R3(T) =ATCC VR-1596(T))。