Rickettsia asiatica

{{Short description|Species of bacterium}} {{Speciesbox | image = | image_alt = | image_caption = | status = | status_system = | status_ref = | genus = Rickettsia | species = asiatica | parent = Spotted fever group | authority = Fujita et al. 2006 | synonyms = | synonyms_ref = | subdivision_ranks = | subdivision = }}

'''''Rickettsia asiatica''''' is a tick-borne pathogenic species borne by ''Ixodes ovatus''. The type strain of ''Rickettsia asiatica'' sp. nov. is IO-1<sup>T</sup> (=CSUR R2<sup>T</sup>).<ref name="Fujita2006">{{cite journal|last1=Fujita|first1=H.|title=Rickettsia asiatica sp. nov., isolated in Japan|journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology|volume=56|issue=10|year=2006|pages=2365–2368|issn=1466-5026|doi=10.1099/ijs.0.64177-0|pmid=17012563|doi-access=free}}</ref>

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==Further reading== *{{cite journal|last1=Fournier|first1=Pierre-Edouard|last2=Raoult|first2=Didier|title=Identification of rickettsial isolates at the species level using multi-spacer typing|journal=BMC Microbiology|volume=7|issue=1|year=2007|pages=72|issn=1471-2180|doi=10.1186/1471-2180-7-72|pmid=17662158|pmc=1950309 |doi-access=free }} *{{cite journal|last1=Fournier|first1=P.-E.|last2=Dumler|first2=J. S.|last3=Greub|first3=G.|last4=Zhang|first4=J.|last5=Wu|first5=Y.|last6=Raoult|first6=D.|title=Gene Sequence-Based Criteria for Identification of New Rickettsia Isolates and Description of Rickettsia heilongjiangensis sp. nov.|journal=Journal of Clinical Microbiology|volume=41|issue=12|year=2003|pages=5456–5465|issn=0095-1137|doi=10.1128/JCM.41.12.5456-5465.2003|pmid=14662925|pmc=308961}} *Hechemy, Karim E., Philippe Brouqui, and James E. Samuel, eds.Rickettsiology and Rickettsial Diseases. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

==External links== *[https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/rickettsia LPSN] *{{EOL}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rickettsia asiatica}} Category:Rickettsiaceae Category:Bacteria described in 2006