| rickettsia monacensis sp. nov., a spotted fever group rickettsia, from ticks (ixodes ricinus) collected in a european city park. | we describe the isolation and characterization of rickettsia monacensis sp. nov. (type strain, irr/munich(t)) from an ixodes ricinus tick collected in a city park, the english garden in munich, germany. rickettsiae were propagated in vitro with ixodes scapularis cell line ise6. blast analysis of the 16s rrna, the citrate synthase, and the partial 190-kda rickettsial outer membrane protein a (rompa) gene sequences demonstrated that the isolate was a spotted fever group (sfg) rickettsia closely re ... | 2002 | 12200314 |