Isolation and Molecular Analysis of a Novel <italic toggle="yes">Neorickettsia</italic> Species That Causes Potomac Horse Fever

ABSTRACT Potomac horse fever (PHF), a severe and frequently fatal febrile diarrheal disease, has been known to be caused only by Neorickettsia risticii, an endosymbiont of digenean trematodes. Here, we report the cell culture isolation of a new Neorickettsia species found in two locations in eastern...

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Main Authors: Omid Teymournejad, Mingqun Lin, Hannah Bekebrede, Ahmed Kamr, Ramiro E. Toribio, Luis G. Arroyo, John D. Baird, Yasuko Rikihisa
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Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2020
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/b0bfb3ef1f8f4e019ad4530da5336d9d
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