Rickettsia Sibirica Mongolitimonae Infection, Turkey, 2016

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2017 Jun 20

PMID 28628458

Citations 7

Authors

Ferit Kuscu

Omer Orkun

Aslihan Ulu

Behice Kurtaran

Suheyla Komur

A Seza Inal

Damla Erdogan

Yesim Tasova

Hasan S Z Aksu

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Abstract

In 2016, Rickettsia sibirica mongolitimonae was diagnosed for a man in Turkey. He had been bitten by a Hyalomma marginatum tick, from which PCR detected rickettsial DNA. Sequence analysis of the DNA identified R. sibirica mongolitimonae. Immunofluorescence assay of patient serum indicated R. conorii, which cross-reacts. PCR is recommended for rickettsiosis diagnoses.

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