Voltar
Artigo Acesso aberto Produção Nacional Revisado por pares
BIBTEX RIS

Rickettsia amblyommii infecting Amblyomma sculptum in endemic spotted fever area from southeastern Brazil

2015; Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde; Volume: 110; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/0074-02760150266

ISSN

1678-8060

Autores

Emília de Carvalho Nunes, Vinicius Figueiredo Vizzoni, Daniel Leal Navarro, Felipe Campos de Melo Iani, Liliane Silva Durães, Erik Daemon, Carlos A. G. Soares, Gilberto Salles Gazêta,

Tópico(s)

Viral Infections and Vectors

Resumo

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.

Referência(s)