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Short report: New spotted fever group Rickettsia in a Rhipicephalus turanicus tick removed from a child in eastern Sicily, Italy.

Marina E Eremeeva1, Ellen Y Stromdahl.   

Abstract

A new genotype of spotted fever group Rickettsia (SFGR) was identified in Rhipicephalus turanicus from eastern Sicily. On the basis of current molecular criteria, the genetic characteristics obtained from multiple locus sequence typing satisfy the requirements for Candidatus status of this SFGR. Further detection and identification of this SFGR during entomological and clinical surveys will be required to establish the prevalence of this Rickettsia and its potential pathogenicity for humans.

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Year:  2011        PMID: 21212209      PMCID: PMC3005513          DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2011.10-0176

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Am J Trop Med Hyg        ISSN: 0002-9637            Impact factor:   2.345


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1.  Current knowledge of rickettsial diseases in Italy.

Authors:  Lorenzo Ciceroni; Antonella Pinto; Simonetta Ciarrocchi; Alessandra Ciervo
Journal:  Ann N Y Acad Sci       Date:  2006-10       Impact factor: 5.691

2.  Isolation and identification of Rickettsia massiliae from Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks collected in Arizona.

Authors:  Marina E Eremeeva; Elizabeth A Bosserman; Linda J Demma; Maria L Zambrano; Dianna M Blau; Gregory A Dasch
Journal:  Appl Environ Microbiol       Date:  2006-08       Impact factor: 4.792

3.  [Suburban biotopes of Rhipicephalus turanicus (Pomerancev, Matikasvili, Lototzki, 1940). (Acarina, Ixodoidea). Preliminary study (author's transl)].

Authors:  B Gilot; D Jarry; G Pautou; E Moncada
Journal:  Ann Parasitol Hum Comp       Date:  1977 May-Jun

4.  Epidemiology of boutonneuse fever in western Sicily: demonstration of multiple spotted fever group-Rickettsiae subtypes.

Authors:  G Tringali; R Regnery; A Sferlazzo; V Intonazzo; C Spruill; A M Perna; G La Rosa
Journal:  Microbiologica       Date:  1989-07

5.  Analysis of the systematic relationships among ticks of the genera Rhipicephalus and Boophilus (Acari: Ixodidae) based on mitochondrial 12S ribosomal DNA gene sequences and morphological characters.

Authors:  L Beati; J E Keirans
Journal:  J Parasitol       Date:  2001-02       Impact factor: 1.276

6.  Characterization of spotted fever group rickettsiae in flea and tick specimens from northern Peru.

Authors:  Patrick J Blair; Ju Jiang; George B Schoeler; Cecilia Moron; Elizabeth Anaya; Manuel Cespedes; Christopher Cruz; Vidal Felices; Carolina Guevara; Leonardo Mendoza; Pablo Villaseca; John W Sumner; Allen L Richards; James G Olson
Journal:  J Clin Microbiol       Date:  2004-11       Impact factor: 5.948

7.  Gene sequence-based criteria for identification of new rickettsia isolates and description of Rickettsia heilongjiangensis sp. nov.

Authors:  Pierre-Edouard Fournier; J Stephen Dumler; Gilbert Greub; Jianzhi Zhang; Yimin Wu; Didier Raoult
Journal:  J Clin Microbiol       Date:  2003-12       Impact factor: 5.948

8.  Rickettsiae in ixodid ticks, Sicily.

Authors:  Tiziana Beninati; Claudio Genchi; Alessandra Torina; Santo Caracappa; Claudio Bandi; Nathan Lo
Journal:  Emerg Infect Dis       Date:  2005-03       Impact factor: 6.883

9.  Rickettsia massiliae human isolation.

Authors:  Giustina Vitale; Serafino Mansuelo; Jean-Marc Rolain; Didier Raoult
Journal:  Emerg Infect Dis       Date:  2006-01       Impact factor: 6.883

10.  Israeli spotted fever Rickettsia in Sicilian Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks.

Authors:  Giovanni M Giammanco; Serafino Mansueto; Pietro Ammatuna; Giustina Vitale
Journal:  Emerg Infect Dis       Date:  2003-07       Impact factor: 6.883

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Review 1.  Update on tick-borne rickettsioses around the world: a geographic approach.

Authors:  Philippe Parola; Christopher D Paddock; Cristina Socolovschi; Marcelo B Labruna; Oleg Mediannikov; Tahar Kernif; Mohammad Yazid Abdad; John Stenos; Idir Bitam; Pierre-Edouard Fournier; Didier Raoult
Journal:  Clin Microbiol Rev       Date:  2013-10       Impact factor: 26.132

2.  Spotted fever group Rickettsiae in ticks in Cyprus.

Authors:  Dimosthenis Chochlakis; Ioannis Ioannou; Vassilios Sandalakis; Theodoros Dimitriou; Nikolaos Kassinis; Byron Papadopoulos; Yannis Tselentis; Anna Psaroulaki
Journal:  Microb Ecol       Date:  2011-08-11       Impact factor: 4.552

3.  Spotted fever group rickettsiae in ticks collected from wild animals in Israel.

Authors:  Avi Keysary; Marina E Eremeeva; Moshe Leitner; Adi Beth Din; Mary E Wikswo; Kosta Y Mumcuoglu; Moshe Inbar; Arian D Wallach; Uri Shanas; Roni King; Trevor Waner
Journal:  Am J Trop Med Hyg       Date:  2011-11       Impact factor: 2.345

4.  Acute febrile illness is associated with Rickettsia spp infection in dogs.

Authors:  Laia Solano-Gallego; Alessandra Caprì; Maria Grazia Pennisi; Marco Caldin; Tommaso Furlanello; Michele Trotta
Journal:  Parasit Vectors       Date:  2015-04-10       Impact factor: 3.876

Review 5.  Neglected aspects of tick-borne rickettsioses.

Authors:  Laura Tomassone; Aránzazu Portillo; Markéta Nováková; Rita de Sousa; José Antonio Oteo
Journal:  Parasit Vectors       Date:  2018-04-24       Impact factor: 3.876

Review 6.  Rickettsiales in Italy.

Authors:  Cristoforo Guccione; Claudia Colomba; Manlio Tolomeo; Marcello Trizzino; Chiara Iaria; Antonio Cascio
Journal:  Pathogens       Date:  2021-02-08

7.  Molecular Survey and Spatial Distribution of Rickettsia spp. in Ticks Infesting Free-Ranging Wild Animals in Pakistan (2017-2021).

Authors:  Abid Ali; Shehla Shehla; Hafsa Zahid; Farman Ullah; Ismail Zeb; Haroon Ahmed; Itabajara da Silva Vaz; Tetsuya Tanaka
Journal:  Pathogens       Date:  2022-01-26

8.  Molecular Characterization of Rickettsial Agents in Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) from Sri Lanka.

Authors:  Gregory A Dasch; Marina E Eremeeva; Maria L Zambrano; Ranjan Premaratna; S A M Kularatne; R P V Jayanthe Rajapakse
Journal:  Am J Trop Med Hyg       Date:  2022-04-11       Impact factor: 3.707

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