Rickettsia parkeri and Candidatus Rickettsia andeanae in Tick of the Amblyomma maculatum Group, Mexico

Rickettsia parkeri and Candidatus Rickettsia andeanae in Tick of the Amblyomma maculatum Group, Mexico

We report Rickettsia parkeri and Candidatus Rickettsia andeanae in ticks of the Amblyomma maculatum group collected from dogs in Sonora, Mexico. Molecular characterization of these bacteria was accomplished by DNA amplification and sequence analysis of portions of the rickettsial genes gltA, htrA, o...

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Main Authors: Jesús Delgado-de la Mora, Sokani Sánchez-Montes, Jesús D. Licona-Enríquez, David Delgado-de la Mora, Christopher D. Paddock, Lorenza Beati, Pablo Colunga-Salas, Carmen Guzmán-Cornejo, Maria L. Zambrano, Sandor E. Karpathy, Andrés M. López-Pérez, Gerardo Álvarez-Hernández
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019-04-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Rickettsia parkeri
spotted fever group rickettsiae
Mexico
vector-borne infections
ticks
bacteria
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/4/18-1507_article

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