Naming of Rickettsiae and rickettsial diseases.
Over the last 20 years, advances in molecular techniques have greatly facilitated the identification of the members of the Rickettsiales, and numerous new species and diseases have been described. In this paper, we review taxonomic rules and appropriate approaches to valid naming of rickettsial species and the diseases they cause.
Raoult
Didier
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Unité des Rickettsies, IFR 48, CNRS UMR 6020, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, 13385 Marseille Cedex 05, France. didier.raoult@medecine.univ-mrs.fr
Fournier
Pierre-Edouard
PE
Eremeeva
Marina
M
Graves
Stephen
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Kelly
Patrick J
PJ
Oteo
José A
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Sekeyova
Zuzana
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Tamura
Akira
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Tarasevich
Irina
I
Zhang
Lijuan
L
D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D012288:Rickettsiaceae Infections / Q000145:classification* / Q000382:microbiology*; D016996:Rickettsieae / Q000145:classification*; D009626:Terminology as Topic