title: Diplorickettsia massiliensis as a human pathogen.
abstract: Diplorickettsia massiliensis has been recently isolated from Ixodes ricinus ticks. We screened 13,872 serum samples from patients in France with suspected tick-borne diseases and found three cases that had serological evidence of D. massiliensis infection; for one of these three cases, we obtained molecular evidence of an infection as well.
authors.affiliation: Unité des Rickettsies, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, URMITE, UMR CNRS 6236-IRD198, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385, Marseille Cedex 05, France.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Subramanian
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Mediannikov
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Angelakis
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Socolovschi
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kaplanski
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Martzolff
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Raoult
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000097:blood; D044125:Coxiellaceae / Q000145:classification* / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018884:Ixodes / Q000382:microbiology; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008875:Middle Aged; D012282:Rickettsia Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology*; D017282:Tick-Borne Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial; D004269:DNA, Bacterial