title: Genome sequence of Rickettsia conorii subsp. caspia, the agent of Astrakhan fever.
abstract: Rickettsia conorii subsp. caspia is the agent of Astrakhan fever, a spotted fever group rickettsiosis endemic to Astrakhan, Russia. The present study reports the draft genome of Rickettsia conorii subsp. caspia strain A-167.
authors.affiliation: Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, UMR CNRS 7278, IRD 190, IFR48, Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection, Faculté de Médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: Erwin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sentausa
authors.forename: Khalid
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: El Karkouri
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Robert
authors.forename: Didier
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Raoult
authors.forename: Pierre-Edouard
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Fournier
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D001907:Boutonneuse Fever / Q000382:microbiology; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012282:Rickettsia Infections / Q000382:microbiology; D020114:Rickettsia conorii / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000472:pathogenicity; D012426:Russia; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA