Rickettsia parkeri in Argentina

Abstract

Clinical reports of an eschar-associated rickettsiosis in the Paraná River Delta of Argentina prompted an evaluation of Amblyomma triste ticks in this region. When evaluated by PCR, 17 (7.6%) of 223 questing adult A. triste ticks, collected from 2 sites in the lower Paraná River Delta, contained DNA of Rickettsia parkeri.

Keywords

• Rickettsia parkeri
• Amblyomma triste
• rickettsiosis
• Argentina
• dispatch