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Isolation
tick, Dermacentor nuttalli, USSR, about 1945
Product Format
frozen
Storage Conditions
-70°C or colder
Comments
Initial passages should be made both in eggs and in GP. Soluble antigens of this strain react in CF tests with immune serums for all members of the spotted fever group.
Strain 246 isolated about 1945 from tick (Dermacentor nuttalli) in Russia. Passaged material labeled No. 246 'R' was subsequently distributed to C. B Philips, USA and from Philips to Bozeman to Fuller.
Bell EJ, Stoenner HG. Immunologic relationships among the spotted fever group of rickettsias determined by toxin neutralization tests in mice with convalescent animal serums. J. Immunol. 84: 171-182, 1960. PubMed: 13798490
Skerman VB, et al. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 30: 225-420, 1980.
