Phylogeography of Rickettsia rickettsii Genotypes Associated with Fatal Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF), a tick-borne zoonosis caused by Rickettsia rickettsii, is among the deadliest of all infectious diseases. To identify the distribution of various genotypes of R. rickettsii associated with fatal RMSF, we applied molecular typing methods to samples of DNA extracte...

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Main Authors: Paddock, Christopher D., Denison, Amy M., Lash, R. Ryan, Liu, Lindy, Bollweg, Brigid C., Dahlgren, F. Scott, Kanamura, Cristina T., Angerami, Rodrigo N., Pereira dos Santos, Fabiana C., Brasil Martines, Roosecelis, Karpathy, Sandor E.
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Language:Inglês
Published: The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4155566/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24957541
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.14-0146
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