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Primary isolation of spotted fever group rickettsiae from Amblyomma cooperi collected from Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris in Brazil

1996; Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde; Volume: 91; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0074-02761996000300003

ISSN

1678-8060

Autores

Elba Regina Sampaio de Lemos, Heloísa Helena Barbosa Melles, Sílvia Colombo, Raimundo Diogo Machado, José Rodrigues Coura, Maria Angélica Arpon Marandino Guimarães, Selênio R Sanseverino, Aline Beltrame de Moura,

Tópico(s)

Viral Infections and Vectors

Resumo

This paper reports the first isolation of a spotted fever group rickettsia from an Amblyomma cooperi ixodid collected from a capybara (Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris) in an endemic area of spotted fever in the County of Pedreira, State of São Paulo, Brazil. Isolation was performed in Vero cell culture and submitted to immunofluorescence, using antibody from Rickettsia rickettsii-positive human serum.

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