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| Title |
Proposal to create subspecies of Rickettsia conorii based on multi-locus sequence typing and an emended description of Rickettsia conorii
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| Published in |
BMC Microbiology, March 2005
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2180-5-11 |
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| Authors |
Yong Zhu, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Marina Eremeeva, Didier Raoult |
| Abstract |
Rickettsiae closely related to the Malish strain, the reference Rickettsia conorii strain, include Indian tick typhus rickettsia (ITTR), Israeli spotted fever rickettsia (ISFR), and Astrakhan fever rickettsia (AFR). Although closely related genotypically, they are distinct serotypically. Using multilocus sequence typing (MLST), we have recently found that distinct serotypes may not always represent distinct species within the Rickettsia genus. We investigated the possibility of classifying rickettsiae closely related to R. conorii as R. conorii subspecies as proposed by the ad hoc committee on reconciliation of approaches to bacterial systematics. For this, we first estimated their genotypic variability by using MLST including the sequencing of 5 genes, of 31 rickettsial isolates closely related to R. conorii strain Malish, 1 ITTR isolate, 2 isolates and 3 tick amplicons of AFR, and 2 ISFR isolates. Then, we selected a representative of each MLST genotype and used multi-spacer typing (MST) and mouse serotyping to estimate their degree of taxonomic relatedness. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 71 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Russia | 1 | 1% |
| Japan | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 66 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 12 | 17% |
| Researcher | 10 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 8% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 6 | 8% |
| Other | 15 | 21% |
| Unknown | 13 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 27 | 38% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 10% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 7% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 3 | 4% |
| Engineering | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 4 | 6% |
| Unknown | 23 | 32% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 November 2008.
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#8,534,528
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#958
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#2
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