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.
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
Didier
D
Raoult
Pierre-Edouard
PE
Fournier
Marina
M
Eremeeva
Stephen
S
Graves
Patrick J
PJ
Kelly
José A
JA
Oteo
Zuzana
Z
Sekeyova
Akira
A
Tamura
Irina
I
Tarasevich
Lijuan
L
Zhang
D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D012288:Rickettsiaceae Infections / Q000145:classification* / Q000382:microbiology*; D016996:Rickettsieae / Q000145:classification*; D009626:Terminology as Topic