Volume 20, Number 10—October 2014
Dispatch
Rickettsia parkeri and Rickettsia montanensis, Kentucky and Tennessee, USA
Table 1
Quantitative PCR results for rickettsia in Amblyomma maculatum and Dermacentor variabilis ticks, Kentucky and Tennessee, USA, 2012
Location, tick species |
No. |
No. (%) positive for Rickettsia parkeri |
No. (%) positive for R. montanenesis |
Fort Knox, Kentucky | |||
A. maculatum | 3 | 0 | 0 |
D. variabilis | 44 | 0 | 2 (5) |
Fort Campbell, Kentucky and Tennessee | |||
A. maculatum | 66 | 10 (15) | 0 |
D. variabilis | 148 | 0 | 6 (4) |
Wendell Ford Regional Training Center, Kentucky | |||
A. maculatum | 36 | 5 (14) | 0 |
D. variabilis | 107 | 0 | 2 (2) |
Total | |||
A. maculatum | 105 | 15 (14) | 0 |
D. variablilis | 299 | 0 | 10 (3) |