Emerging tick-borne pathogen -- the research status on Rickettsia raoultii
WEN Jing1, JIAO Dan1, JU Wen-dong2, HUANG Yu-ming1, WANG Yue1, WANG Jian-hua1, SHI Xiao-jie1, CHENG Hong-yan1, CHENG Cheng2, SUN Yi3
1.State Key Medical Vector (Ticks) Monitoring Laboratory,Heihe Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, Heihe 164300, China; 2.Heilongjiang International Travel Healthcare Center, Harbin 150030, China; 3.State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity,Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing 100071, China
Abstract:Rickettsia raoultii, which belongs to spotted fever group Rickettsia (SFGR), is an emerging causative agent of calp eschar and neck lymphadenopathy (SENLAT), and mainly founded in Europe and Asia. R. raoultii is mainly transmitted by ticks and high prevalence in Dermacentor spp. and the average level is up to 47.74%. R. raoultii have been detected in ticks collected from Jilin, Heilongjiang, Tibet, Xinjiang, and Gansu provinces in China. In this paper, we reviewed the geographic distribution, bio-vector, medical importance, and molecular biology of R. raoultii.
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WEN Jing, JIAO Dan, JU Wen-dong, HUANG Yu-ming, WANG Yue, WANG Jian-hua, SHI Xiao-jie, CHENG Hong-yan, CHENG Cheng, SUN Yi. Emerging tick-borne pathogen -- the research status on Rickettsia raoultii. Chinese Journal of Zoonoses, 2015, 31(4): 361-364.
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