Identification of a rickettsial endosymbiont in a soft tick Ornithodoros turicata americanus.

Bacterial endosymbionts are abundantly found in both hard and soft ticks. Occidentia massiliensis, a rickettsial endosymbiont, was first identified in the soft tick Ornithodoros sonrai collected from Senegal and later was identified in a hard tick Africaniella transversale. In this study, we noted t...

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Main Authors: Lichao Liu, Daniel E Sonenshine, Hameeda Sultana, Girish Neelakanta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278582