Rickettsia parkeri and candidatus rickettsia andeanae in ticks 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

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)836-838
Number of pages3
JournalEmerging Infectious Diseases
Volume25
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019

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