Detection of a typhus group Rickettsia in Amblyomma ticks in the state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Aaron Medina-Sanchez; Donald H. Bouyer; Virginia Alcantara-Rodriguez; Claudio Mafra; Jorge Zavala-Castro; Ted Whitworth; Vsevolod L. Popov; Ildefonso Fernandez-Salas; David H. Walker

doi:10.1196/annals.1355.052

Detection of a typhus group Rickettsia in Amblyomma ticks in the state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Aaron Medina-Sanchez
, Donald H. Bouyer
, Virginia Alcantara-Rodriguez
, Claudio Mafra
, Jorge Zavala-Castro
, Ted Whitworth
, Vsevolod L. Popov
, Ildefonso Fernandez-Salas
, David H. Walker

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The state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico has had outbreaks of typhus group rickettsiosis, most recently recognized in 1997. Evaluation of the sera of 345 patients with a dengue-like illness revealed that 25.5% had antibodies reactive with typhus group rickettsiae and 16% had antibodies to Rickettsia parkeri. Rickettsiae were detected by PCR and shell-vial isolations in the field-collected Amblyomma ticks. Molecular characterization by DNA sequence analysis of the gltA, ompB, and 17-kDa gene identified the organisms to be R. prowazekii.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	327-332
Number of pages	6
Journal	Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Volume	1063
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1196/annals.1355.052
State	Published - Dec 2005
Externally published	Yes

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Detection of a typhus group Rickettsia in Amblyomma ticks in the state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

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