Rickettsia amblyommii infecting Amblyomma sculptum in endemic spotted fever area from southeastern Brazil

Autor:	Emília de Carvalho Nunes, Vinicius Figueiredo Vizzoni, Daniel Leal Navarro, Felipe Campos de Melo Iani, Liliane Silva Durães, Erik Daemon, Carlos Augusto Gomes Soares, Gilberto Salles Gazeta
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Rickettsia amblyommii Amblyomma sculptum southeastern Brazil - ticks Microbiology QR1-502 Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216
Zdroj:	Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Vol 110, Iss 8, Pp 1058-1061 (2015)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	1678-8060 0074-0276
DOI:	10.1590/0074-02760150266
Popis:	The Rickettsia bacteria include the aetiological agents for the human spotted fever (SF) disease. In the present study, a SF groupRickettsia amblyommii related bacterium was detected in a field collected Amblyomma sculptum (Amblyomma cajennense species complex) tick from a Brazilian SF endemic site in southeastern Brazil, in the municipality of Juiz de Fora, state of Minas Gerais. Genetic analysis based on genes ompA,ompB and htrA showed that the detected strain, named R. amblyommii str. JF, is related to the speciesR. amblyommii.
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