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Hiroki Kawabata1, Shuji Ando, Toshio Kishimoto
1Department of Bacteriology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjoku-ku, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan. kbata@nih.go.jp
Microbiology and Immunology
|May 23, 2006
Abstract:
Rickettsia was first detected in seabird soft-bodied ticks, Carios capensis and C. sawaii in Japan. According to sequence analysis, Rickettsia in Japan was identical to Rickettsia scc31 in C. capensis in the U.S.A. This suggested that an environmental circulation had consisted among microorganisms, ticks and long distance migratory seabirds around the Pacific Ocean.
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