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Abstract

The characterization of a novel species, first isolated from ticks in Japan in 1993, is described for which the name sp. nov. is proposed. Using multilocus sequence comparison, five rickettsial isolates from collected 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 described species. The type strain of sp. nov. is IO-1 (=CSUR R2). 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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