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Prevalence data of Rickettsia slovaca and other SFG Rickettsiae species in Dermacentor marginatus in the southeastern Iberian peninsula.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 1 Oct 2006
Márquez F J, Rojas A, Ibarra V, Cantero A, Rojas J, Oteo J A, Muniain M A
Abstract excerpt
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...
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