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          <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.1002" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.1002" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.1002">Neorickettsia helminthoeca</identifier>
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                <surname>Pretzman</surname>
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            <article-title>16s rRNA Gene Sequence of Neorickettsia helminthoeca and its Phylogenetic Alignment with Members of the Genus Ehrlichia</article-title>
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            <source id="116">International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology</source>
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        <public-note>Isolated from Canis domesticus. DH82 is a canine histiocytic cell line from an infected dog, maintained at Ohio State University.</public-note>
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