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Prevalence Data of Rickettsia slovaca and Other SFG Rickettsiae Species in Dermacentor marginatus in the Southeastern Iberian Peninsula
Author(s) -
MÁRQUEZ F.J.,
ROJAS A.,
IBARRA V.,
CANTERO A.,
ROJAS J.,
OTEO J.A.,
MUNIAIN M.A.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1374.062
Subject(s) - dermacentor , rocky mountain spotted fever , peninsula , spotted fever , biology , zoology , rickettsia rickettsii , ecology , rickettsia , acari , virology , ixodidae , virus
In southern Spain, Dermacentor marginatus ticks can be infected with several genospecies of spotted fever Group (SFG) Rickettsia . We developed a nested polymerase chain reaction assay by using a species‐specific probe targeting the ompA gene to detect and differentiate between the two groups of rickettsiae previously described in D. marginatus . SFG rickettsia has been detected in 85.15% of ticks studied (26.7% of positives have been to R. slovaca , the causative agent of TIBOLA‐DEBONEL, and 73.3% to SFG rickettsia closely related to strains RpA4–JL‐02‐DnS14–DnS28).