Prevalence Data of  Rickettsia slovaca  and Other SFG Rickettsiae Species in  Dermacentor marginatus  in the Southeastern Iberian Peninsula | Zendy

MÁRQUEZ F.J. | Zendy; ROJAS A. | Zendy; IBARRA V. | Zendy; CANTERO A. | Zendy; ROJAS J. | Zendy; OTEO J.A. | Zendy; MUNIAIN M.A. | Zendy

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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).

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