Rickettsia asiatica sp. nov., isolated in Japan

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Abstract
The characterization of a novelRickettsiaspecies, first isolated fromIxodes ovatusticks in Japan in 1993, is described for which the nameRickettsia asiaticasp. nov. is proposed. Using multilocus sequence comparison, five rickettsial isolates fromI. ovatuscollected at various locations in Japan were found to be identical but belonged to a novel species. Serotyping also demonstrated this rickettsia to be distinct from previously describedRickettsiaspecies. The type strain ofRickettsia asiaticasp. nov. is IO-1T(=CSUR R2T). Following discussions held at the meeting of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP) and its Judicial Commission (JC) in San Francisco, 2005, and in anticipation of the published minutes of the JC and ICSP, a committee consisting of the chairman of the ICSP, the chairman of the Judicial Commission of the ICSP and the Editor of the IJSEM has granted an exception in this case to the Rule governing the deposit of type material in two different collections in two different countries.

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