A prevalent alpha-proteobacterium Paracoccus sp. in a population of the Cayenne ticks (Amblyomma cajennense) from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

A prevalent alpha-proteobacterium Paracoccus sp. in a population of the Cayenne ticks (Amblyomma cajennense) from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

As Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is the most common tick-borne disease in South America, the presence of Rickettsia sp. in Amblyomma ticks is a possible indication of its endemicity in certain geographic regions. In the present work, bacterial DNA sequences related to Rickettsia amblyommii genes in A...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Erik Machado-Ferreira, Joseph Piesman, Nordin S Zeidner, Carlos A.G Soares
Materialtyp: Artikel
Språk:English
Publicerad: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2012-01-01
Serie:Genetics and Molecular Biology
Ämnen:
Paracoccus
Rickettsia amblyommii
Amblyomma
ixodidae ticks
Länkar:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572012000500021

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