Can I read Tick-Borne Spotted Fever Rickettsioses on EtoBox?

Tick-Borne Spotted Fever Rickettsioses by Pierre-Edouard Fournier; Didier Raoult is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Tick-Borne Spotted Fever Rickettsioses about?

the cytoplasm of eukaryotic host cells. As a consequence, they must be cultivated in tissue culture, guinea pigs, or embryonated chicken eggs. Rickettsiae are difficult to stain with ordinary bacterial stains, but are stained by the Gimenez method. To date, there are 29 formally recognized species in the genus Rickettsia, which can be classified into four groups: the typhus group (R. typhi and R. prowazekii); the spotted fever group (>20 species) (Table 69.1); R. bellii; and the R. canadensis group. Many other as yet uncharacterized isolates exist. Taxonomic guidelines for the identification and description of new rickettsial isolates have been proposed using sequences of the 16S rRNA (rrs) gene and four protein-coding genes: gltA, ompA, ompB, and gene D. 4

Author

Pierre-Edouard Fournier; Didier Raoult

Publisher

Elsevier

Published

2020

Language

EN