Emerging Infectious Diseases (Apr 2019)

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

  • 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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2504.181507
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 4
pp. 836 – 838

Abstract

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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, ompA, and ompB.

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