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Evolution and diversity of Rickettsia bacteria

Lucy A Weinert*, John H Werren, Alexandre Aebi, Graham N Stone and Francis M Jiggins

BMC Biology 2009, 7:6 doi:10.1186/1741-7007-7-6

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Assessment of bacterial endosymbiont diversity in Otiorhynchus spp. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) larvae using a multitag 454 pyrosequencing approach

Jacqueline Hirsch, Stephan Strohmeier, Martin Pfannkuchen, Annette Reineke BMC Microbiology 2012, 12(Suppl 1):S6 (18 January 2012)

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Fleas as parasites of the family Canidae

Gerhard Dobler, Martin Pfeffer Parasites & Vectors 2011, 4:139 (18 July 2011)

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Many different flea species are parasitizing dogs and wild canids world-wide. Many of them can transmit zoonotic bacteria including Yersinia pestis, Rickettsia spp. and Bartonella spp. The growing importance of these pathogens warrants an update of the current literature. Image: Fleas are conquering the dogs of the world.

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Analysis of the Rickettsia africae genome reveals that virulence acquisition in Rickettsia species may be explained by genome reduction

Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Khalid El Karkouri, Quentin Leroy, Catherine Robert, Bernadette Giumelli, Patricia Renesto, Cristina Socolovschi, Philippe Parola, Stéphane Audic, Didier Raoult BMC Genomics 2009, 10:166 (20 April 2009)

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