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1997 • 540 citations

Laboratory diagnosis of rickettsioses: current approaches to diagnosis of old and new rickettsial diseases

1997 • 482 citations

Endosymbionts of ticks and their relationship to Wolbachia spp. and tick-borne pathogens of humans and animals

1997 • 370 citations

Phylogenetic analysis of spotted fever group rickettsiae by study of the outer surface protein rOmpA

1998 • 305 citations

Association of Rickettsia helvetica with chronic perimyocarditis in sudden cardiac death

1999 • 254 citations

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2001 • 252 citations

Evidence of Infection in Humans with Rickettsia helvetica in Eastern France

2000 • 212 citations

Phylogeny of Rickettsia spp. inferred by comparing sequences of 'gene D', which encodes an intracytoplasmic protein.

2001 • 203 citations

Characterization of a New Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia Detected in <I>Ixodes ricinus</I> (Acari: Ixodidae<I>)</I> Collected in Slovakia

2000 • 66 citations

Genotypic identification of an undescribed spotted fever group rickettsia in Ixodes ricinus from southwestern Spain.

1998 • 62 citations

Tick species parasitizing people in an area endemic for tick-borne diseases in north-western Italy.

1999 • 49 citations

Characterization of a New Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia Detected in Ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae) Collected in Slovakia

2000 • 46 citations

Molecular Characterization of a Novel Rickettsia Species from Ixodes scapularis in Texas

1998 • 46 citations

A sero-epidemiological survey of asymptomatic cases of boutonneuse fever in western Sicily

1984 • 39 citations

Infections in an Alpine Environment: Antibodies to Hantaviruses, Leptospira, Rickettsiae, and Borrelia burgdorferi in Defined italian Populations

1993 • 33 citations

EPIDEMIOLOGY OF BOUTONNEUSE FEVER IN WESTERN SICILY

1986 • 32 citations

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Current endemic expansion of boutonneuse fever in Italy

1981 • 11 citations

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1981 • 9 citations

Mediterranean spotted fever in Lombardy: An epidemiological, clinical and laboratory study of 76 cases in the years 1977?1986

1989 • 8 citations