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ReviewScientific reviews2026

Bridging historical antigenic profiling and whole-genome taxonomy in

Aticha Lhokaew, Elizabeth M Batty, Stuart D Blacksell

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Review in Scientific reviews, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Aticha LhokaewMahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.ORCID 0009-0001-3999-9355
Elizabeth M BattyMahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.ORCID 0000-0001-8559-452X
Stuart D BlacksellMahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.ORCID 0000-0001-6576-726X

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Historically, rickettsial diseases were classified primarily through antigenic profiling and serotyping, an approach that was later superseded by molecular taxonomy and phylogenetics. Recent advances in whole-genome sequencing (WGS) have revealed substantial taxonomic ambiguity within the genus Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at https://doi.org/10.1038/s44573-026-00004-2.

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Rickettsia group antigenic profileRickettsia taxonomySerological diagnosisWhole genome sequencing

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PMID42788009
PMCPMC13602854

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