Genome sequence of Rickettsia conorii subsp. caspia, the agent of Astrakhan fever

Erwin Sentausa; Khalid El Karkouri; Catherine Robert; Didier Raoult; Pierre-Edouard Fournier

doi:10.1128/JB.00992-12

Genome sequence of Rickettsia conorii subsp. caspia, the agent of Astrakhan fever

J Bacteriol. 2012 Sep;194(17):4763-4. doi: 10.1128/JB.00992-12.

Authors

Erwin Sentausa¹, Khalid El Karkouri, Catherine Robert, Didier Raoult, Pierre-Edouard Fournier

Affiliation

¹ 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.

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.

MeSH terms

Base Sequence
Boutonneuse Fever / microbiology
Chromosome Mapping
Genome, Bacterial*
Humans
Molecular Sequence Data
Rickettsia Infections / microbiology
Rickettsia conorii / classification
Rickettsia conorii / genetics*
Rickettsia conorii / pathogenicity
Russia
Sequence Analysis, DNA

Associated data

GENBANK/AJUR00000000