TY - JOUR
AU - Sánchez-Montes, Sokani
AU - Ballados-González, Gerardo
AU - Hernández-Velasco, Alejandra
AU - Zazueta-Islas, Héctor
AU - Solis-Cortés, Marlene
AU - Miranda-Ortiz, Haydee
AU - Canseco-Méndez, Julio
AU - Fernández-Figueroa, Edith
AU - Colunga-Salas, Pablo
AU - López-Pérez, Andrés
AU - Delgado-de la Mora, Jesús
AU - Licona-Enriquez, Jesús
AU - Delgado-de la Mora, David
AU - Karpathy, Sandor
AU - Paddock, Christopher
AU - Rangel-Escareño, Claudia
T1 - Molecular Confirmation of Rickettsia parkeri in Amblyomma ovale Ticks, Veracruz, Mexico
T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal
PY - 2019
VL - 25
IS - 12
SP - 2315
SN - 1080-6059
AB - We found Rickettsia parkeri in Amblyomma ovale ticks collected in Veracruz, Mexico, in 2018. We sequenced gene segments of gltA, htrA, sca0, and sca5; phylogenetic reconstruction revealed near-complete identity with R. parkeri strain Atlantic Rainforest. Enhanced surveillance is needed in Mexico to determine the public health relevance of this bacterium.
KW - dogs
KW - sentinel
KW - rickettsiosis
KW - emerging pathogen
KW - Rickettsia parkeri
KW - Amblyomma ovale
KW - gltA
KW - htrA
KW - sca0
KW - sca5
KW - Atlantic Rainforest strain
KW - ticks
KW - tickborne disease
KW - vector-borne infections
KW - Veracruz
KW - Mexico
KW - bacteria
KW - zoonoses
KW - molecular characterization
DO - 10.3201/eid2512.190964
UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/12/19-0964_article
ER - End of Reference