Highly Prevalent Coxiella sp. Bacterium in the Tick Vector Amblyomma americanum | Zendy

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Highly Prevalent Coxiella sp. Bacterium in the Tick Vector Amblyomma americanum

Author(s) -

Algimantas Jasinskas,

Jianmin Zhong,

Alan G. Barbour

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

applied and environmental microbiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.552

H-Index - 324

eISSN - 1070-6291

pISSN - 0099-2240

DOI - 10.1128/aem.02009-06

Subject(s) - amblyomma americanum , obligate , biology , tick , coxiella burnetii , microbiology and biotechnology , amblyomma , acari , rickettsia , ixodidae , rickettsiales , parasitiformes , virology , zoology , bacteria , ecology , genetics , virus

Laboratory-reared and field-collectedAmblyomma americanum ticks were hosts of aCoxiella sp. and aRickettsia sp. While theCoxiella sp. was detected in 50 of 50 field-collected ticks, theRickettsia sp. was absent from 32% of ticks. TheCoxiella sp. showed evidence of a reduced genome and may be an obligate endosymbiont.

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