Article
Rickettsia amblyommii infecting Amblyomma sculptum in endemic spotted fever area from southeastern Brazil
Registro en:
NUNES, Emília de Carvalho; et al. Rickettsia amblyommii infecting Amblyomma sculptum in endemic spotted fever area from southeastern Brazil. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz, v.110, n.8, p.1058-1061, Dec. 2015.
1678-8060
10.1590/0074-02760150266.
Autor
Nunes, Emília de Carvalho
Vizzoni, Vinicius Figueiredo
Navarro, Daniel Leal
Iani, Felipe Campos de Melo
Durães, Liliane Silva
Daemon, Erik
Soares, Carlos Augusto Gomes
Gazeta, Gilberto Salles
Resumen
The Rickettsia bacteria include the aetiological agents for the human spotted fever (SF) disease. In the present
study, a SF group Rickettsia amblyommii related bacterium was detected in a field collected Amblyomma sculptum
(Amblyomma cajennense species complex) tick from a Brazilian SF endemic site in southeastern Brazil, in the municipality
of Juiz de Fora, state of Minas Gerais. Genetic analysis based on genes ompA, ompB and htrA showed
that the detected strain, named R. amblyommii str. JF, is related to the species R. amblyommii.